Delhi’s first doctor hit by Covid elated after taking vaccine jab Follow Newsd On
New Delhi, Jan 25 (IANS) In a sigh of relief, the first frontline healthcare worker in the national capital to suffer due to the coronavirus pandemic in March beamed with joy after receiving the first shot of Covishield vaccine on Monday.
On March 12, Gopal Jha, deployed at a Mohalla clinic in east Delhi, had contracted the virus after an infected woman with travel history to Saudi Arabia visited him at the clinic, resulting in a two-week long misery for him.
“The person I got the infection from was the 10th Covid-19 case in India. I was the first among the doctors in Delhi to get infected. After getting vaccinated today at the Rajiv Gandhi Super Specialty Hospital, I feel elated. My family is also relieved,” Jha told IANS.
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The national capital saw a dip of almost 17 percent in the number of healthcare workers turning up for the coronavirus vaccination on Monday as compared to Saturday (January 16), the first day of the drive. 4,319 healthcare workers were administered the vaccine shot on Saturday.
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There is an increasing doubt among the healthcare workers related to the Covid-19 vaccine (Picture Credits: India Today/Pankaj Jain)
The national capital saw a dip of almost 17 percent in the number of healthcare workers turning up for the coronavirus vaccination on Monday as compared to Saturday (January 16), the first day of the drive. 4,319 healthcare workers were administered the vaccine shot on Saturday.
A medical worker inoculates a beneficiary with a Covid-19 vaccine at GB Pant Hospital in New Delhi.
NEW DELHI: On the third day of the Covid-19 vaccination programme in Delhi on Tuesday, 48.7%, or 4,936 of 10,125 healthcare workers scheduled to be injected, turned up at the city’s 81 centres. Though the percentage was lower than the record on the first day last Saturday, the total number of recipients on Tuesday was the highest till now. As in the previous rounds, the slots of the absentees were filled by individuals who volunteered to receive the jab.
The number of adverse events was lower at 16 cases on Tuesday than in the earlier two rounds. According to a government report, one recipient of Covaxin among the 224 at six centres complained of minor adverse reactions, while 15 of the 4,712 people who were administered Covishield at 75 centres did the same.
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The vaccination was described as a 45-minute, threestep process by those who took it. The vitals were checked after 15 minutes of the vaccine being administered and each of them monitored for half an hour. They were allowed to leave only if their pulse and blood pressure recorded normal readings.
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On Saturday, Shah was a much-relieved man after being one of the 4,319 health workers in Delhi to be inoculated in the first phase of vaccination.
(This story originally appeared in on Jan 17, 2021)NEW DELHI: As the capital battled Covid-19, Raj Nath Shah, a 43-year-old housekeeping staff at Fortis Escorts Heart Institute in South Delhi, didn’t go home for close to six months for fear of exposing his family to the deadly virus. On Saturday, Shah was a much-relieved man after being one of the 4,319 health workers in Delhi to be inoculated in the first phase
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A medic prepares the dose of COVID-19 vaccine before giving it to a beneficiary, at Ernakulam Government General Hospital in Kochi, Saturday, Jan. 16, 2021. (PTI Photo)
For thousands of healthcare workers like Priya, Saturday was a day of hope as India rolled out the world s largest vaccination exercise against coronavirus infection and Covid-19 disease.
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Around 1 pm on Saturday, Priya ( name changed) 28, stood chatting in a queue with a co-worker as she awaited her turn to receive Covishield, Serum Institute of India s Covid-19 vaccine, in the first basement of Dharamshila Narayana Superspeciality Hospital. A nurse in the critical care unit of the hospital s cardiology ward, she was nervous yet excited about the vaccination process.