The private sector will lead India’s second phase of Covid-19 vaccination. What does it mean?
Experts opinion is divided. While some say it is an ‘exciting’ development, others warn it could be a ‘disaster in making’. Feb 27, 2021 · 09:00 am A medical worker inoculates a sanitation worker with a Covid-19 vaccine at a vaccination centre in New Delhi on February 20, 2021. | Prakash Singh/ AFP
Starting March 1, India will extend its Covid-19 vaccination drive to the general population. Everyone over 60 years of age – that adds up to not less than 10 crore people – and those over 45 with comorbidities will be eligible.
Those with comorbidities would have to submit a prescription by a registered doctor.
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Updated Jan 30, 2021 | 11:11 IST
The lady got the vaccine on January 18 at Nizamia Hospital. The hospital served as an isolation centre but she never tested positive all this while. Hyderabad hospital nurse tests positive ten days after getting Covid vaccine | Photo Credit: AP
Hyderabad: Nizamia Hospital’s head nurse, a 57-year-old lady, has tested positive for Covid days after getting the vaccine.
The lady got the vaccine on January 18 at Nizamia. According to the
Hans India, later, she complained of loss of taste, fever, dizziness etc. After taking RAT for Covid, the lady was declared positive on January 28. Before receiving the vaccine, she had never contracted Covid despite the fact that during the lockdown, Nizamia was designated as treatment centre of level-I for Covid suspected cases.
India s Covid vaccine drive off target as only half of people turn up to appointments
Health workers are reluctant to take a vaccine for which they say there is not adequate efficacy data
India aims to vaccinate 10 million health workers by the end of February
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Reluctance to take vaccines is jeopardising the world s biggest Covid jabs campaign with even health workers in India apparently wary of receiving shots.
Barely half of Indian doctors and nurses are showing up to vaccine appointments, prompting forecasts that the world s second most populous nation is dramatically behind vaccination targets.
Emergency use authorisation was granted to two vaccines being manufactured in the country, the AstraZeneca/Oxford University jab and Bharat Biotech’s state-funded Covaxin, on January 3. However, the Covaxin jab has yet to complete phase three trials.