Updated Feb 26, 2021 | 09:26 IST
PMC has got a 62% rise in the last eight days. The civic body has provided 45,847 doses to recipients till now. Covid vaccine drive picks up in Pune, 62% increase in last eight days | Photo Credit: AP
Pune: The spike in fresh Covid cases in the past two weeks seems to have provided a much-required push to the Covid vaccination drive in the city.
PMC has got a 62% rise in the last eight days. The civic body has provided 45,847 doses to recipients till now of which 28,220 doses were provided in the first month from January 16-February 15 while 17,627 doses were provided in the last eight days with a maximum of 4,597 on February 24.
Updated Feb 21, 2021 | 11:54 IST
Two incinerators, each having a capacity to process 300 kg/hour, are being out up at the Sangamwadi facility. In vaccination list of frontline staff in Pune, Covid waste managers go missing | Photo Credit: AP
Pune: A group of 60 frontline staff who are performing a major responsibility in the fight against Covid in the district are feeling ignored.
These are workers at the Common Bio-Medical Waste Treatment Facilities. There are two biomedical garbage processing plants in the district, one for the city located at Sangawadi and another for Pimpri-Chinchwad at Yashwantrao Chavan Municipal Hospital, which have the responsibility of collecting biomedical waste from 5,500 healthcare facilities and then incinerating or recycling it.
Updated Feb 17, 2021 | 10:46 IST
A low turnout for the second dose of the vaccine was reported on the second day of the drive. Of the estimated 8,500 vaccine recipients across Pune district, only 2,689 received the jab. 31% respond for first dose of Covid vaccination in Pune district, low turnout for second dose | Photo Credit: AP
Pune: Turnout for the first dose of the Covid vaccine from healthcare and frontline staff remained bad with just 31% of the targeted 8,500 recipients taking the shot in the district yesterday.
A low turnout for the second dose of the vaccine was reported on the second day of the drive. Of the estimated 8,500 vaccine recipients across the district, only 2,689 received the jab of whom 1,425 were healthcare staff and 1,264 frontline staff.
Updated Feb 16, 2021 | 19:54 IST
Officials attributed the slow pick-up to problems in the CoWIN app. Much of the procedure was held offline earlier because of registration issues of the app. CoWIN issues pose problems in final Covid vaccination date for several in Pune
Pune: Pune district witnessed a slow beginning to the second dose rollout yesterday with many centres registering bad turnouts. Most sites in the area reported turnouts in the low single digits, others had zero.
Officials attributed the slow pick-up to problems in the CoWIN app. Many recipients were unable to find their names on the app yesterday, according to the officials. On January 16, 1,802 recipients had got their first shots against a target of 3,100 in the district.
Updated Feb 15, 2021 | 19:07 IST
Going by the current pace of the vaccination, officials would be able to finish giving the first dose to all registered healthcare workers by March-end. Pune: First round of vaccination for HCWs to end next month
Pune: Health officials yesterday said that they will be able to complete providing the first dose of Covid vaccine to all 1.13 lakh registered healthcare staff in the city by the end of March.
Going by the current pace of the vaccination, officials would be able to finish giving the first dose to all registered healthcare workers by March-end. Ashish Bharati, chief of PMC’s health department told the Times of India, “We plan to add at least four more hospitals from Monday. We are doing our best to vaccinate a large number of healthcare workers. But we cannot force people to turn up. There are still a lot of people who are on wait-and-watch mode.”