A dry run of Covid-19 vaccination was underway Saturday at 46 centres in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana as part of nationwide assessment of preparedness of health authorities to implement the programme when the vaccine is made available. The trial run was being conducted at 39 centres in Andhra Pradesh and seven centres in Telangana. Officials said the process was underway in a smooth manner. In Andhra Pradesh, where the first phase of dry run was conducted at five centres in Krishna district on December 28, the process was conducted at three centres in each of the 13 districts on Saturday. Dummy beneficiaries lined up at four designated centres in Hyderabad and at three centres in Mahabubnagar district at 9 a.m. to receive the vaccine.
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Three health centres identified each in Hyderabad and Mahabubnagar districts; nationwide exercise to assess the preparedness of various State health departments
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Three health centres identified each in Hyderabad and Mahabubnagar districts; nationwide exercise to assess the preparedness of various State health departments
A dry run of COVID-19 vaccination will be conducted at six centres in Hyderabad and Mahbubnagar districts on Saturday as part of a nationwide assessment of preparedness of State health departments to implement the programme when the vaccine is made available.
It will be merely a demonstration and no physical administration of any drug for a few hours, said Director of Public Health G. Srinivasa Rao. The centres in Hyderabad are Urban Primary Health Centre at Tilaknagar, Area Hospital at Nampally and Yashoda Hospital at Somajiguda. In Mahbubnagar distric