Officials in health department say they are yet to get a confirmation regarding Co-WIN application going public and once they are intimated, necessary changes will be implemented
RANCHI: Although the Union health ministry had on February 7 announced to soon open the Co-WIN application for public in general so that the beneficiaries of the third phase, which includes people above 50 years, can get themselves inoculated after prior registration, the state health department says they are yet to finalise the guidelines for the third phase.
Officials in health department say they are yet to get a confirmation regarding Co-WIN application going public and once they are intimated, necessary changes will be implemented.
Ranchi: Mariyam Guriya, the first person to be vaccinated in Jharkhand on the inaugural day of the Covid-19 vaccination drive on January 16, was administered the second dose at the Ranchi sadar hospital in the final phase of the drive which started on Saturday.
Guriya was among the 1,960 beneficiaries who turned up for the second or last dose of the vaccine. Among those who turned up included many health workers like district hospital doctors and prominent physicians, who took the first shot in presence of chief minister Hemant Soren on January 16.
As many as 3,200 beneficiaries had taken the vaccine in the first phase and an equal number was supposed to take it in the last phase. However, the authorities prepared a list of only 2,555 beneficiaries and 77% or 1,960 persons turned up to take the shot.
Ranchi: The vaccination drive has entered its second phase and inoculation of health and frontline workers was being carried out seamlessly at more th.
The Kurmi community, which makes up a big part of the Jungle Mahal population, has thrown a dare at the BJP ahead of the Assembly polls, asking the party to ensure that the Centre approves the community’s re-inclusion in the Scheduled Tribe (ST) category.
Leaders of the community have pointed out that the Trinamul-led state government had sent its proposal to that effect to the Narendra Modi government last month.
Leaders of the community said that the Kurmis, who account for around 50 lakh of Bengal’s population and play a decisive role in the outcome of some 35 Assembly constituencies in the four Jungle Mahal districts, had been registered under the Scheduled Tribe category till 1931, but dropped from the list after Independence for “unknown reasons”.