Coimbatore: Only 72 of the 400 targeted health workers were vaccinated against Covid-19 in the district on day one of the vaccination drive on Saturday.
Health department officials attributed the poor turnout to unwillingness of many health workers to take the shot on the first day, technical glitches that CoWIN app developed and exclusion of many registered and willing beneficiaries for vaccination on day one of the drive.
It is to be noted that people, who are registered for the vaccination, would receive an SMS with time slot and place and could get vaccinated only on the day that is allotted to them.
Coimbatore: The dry run for administration of vaccine for Covid-19 was successfully conducted in the district on Friday.
None of the five centres selected for the dry run faced any glitches or issues, officials of the health department said.
All the centres also managed to complete the practice run on 25 people each within two hours. However, the number of centres where the real vaccine would be administered is yet to be decided.
The dry run was conducted at five locations in the district Coimbatore Medical College Hospital, Nallatipalayam PHC, Samathur PHC, Karpagam Medical College and Hospital and Mettupalayam GH. Just like the nationwide dry run, we selected 25 beneficiaries for each centre. Since their data was already fed into the Covin app, we faced no difficulties in finding their data. We administered the vaccination following the data, deputy director of public health Dr G Ramesh Kumar said.
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COIMBATORE: The district recorded 81 fresh Covid-19 cases and one death on Tuesday. While 86 people were discharged from government and private hospitals in the district, active cases stand at 738.
The total number of Covid deaths in the district has gone up to 657.
Though the health department has managed to bring down the number of Covid-19 cases to less than 90 a day, and deaths to an average of one person a day, the district continues to see deaths occurring within 24 hours of hospitalization. In December alone, nearly 20% of deaths occurred within 24 hours of hospitalization.
Of the 41 deaths due to Covid-19 recorded in December, eight occurred within 24 hours of hospitalization. Another seven deaths occurred within 48 hours of hospitalization, which means 36.5% of the deaths, or 15 out of 41, occured within two days of hospitalization. Nine out of 10 deaths have occurred in government hospitals.
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COIMBATORE: Coimbatore has been included in the nationwide trial run for mass Covid-19 vaccination on Saturday. The trial run will be conducted in five centres and will include 125 beneficiaries.
The beneficiaries will not be given an injection since the vaccine is expected to arrive only by January-end. The trial run is mainly to check for any issues in the COWIN app, which must issue a certificate to the beneficiary after the vaccine, and to check how efficiently the vaccination teams store and administer the shots.
The trial run that will begin at 10 am on Saturday will be conducted at ESI Hospital, PSG Hospital, Sulur GH, SLM Home Urban PHC in Brookebond Road and Bouluvampatti community health centre.