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updated: Apr 04 2021, 10:51 ist
The clock is ticking on India s Covid-19 vaccination drive. The world s second-most populous nation has to inoculate 35 crore citizens in the shortest possible time after it threw open jabs to everyone above 45 years. The race against time gets more testing due to the hurdles ahead, and some that persist from the previous phases.
First, vaccinators are short-handed, which compounds the poor healthcare infrastructure. Second, the private sector is dragging its feet, posing a big challenge to scaling up operations. The lack of engagement with people from the lower socio-economic background isn t helping the already slow exercise.
Over and above all these obstacles, vaccine hesitancy continues even among the urban and educated. Nearly 80 days after rolling out the Covid-19 vaccination, India has vaccinated less than one crore individuals with the required two doses to protect them from the rampaging pandemic.
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Private hospitals allowed to administer vaccine 24x7 Doctors say move will help once immunisation is opened to all, want bugs fixed in website
The Jharkhand government has allowed private hospitals in the state to provide vaccination facility 24x7 if they get sufficient number of registrations and have the infrastructure to run the campaign, officials heading the immunization programme in the state said on Saturday.
“A letter has been issued to all private hospitals stating that they can administer vaccines to senior citizens and middle-agers with comorbid conditions 24x7 if they get sufficient registrations,” said the state immunization Officer, Dr Ajit Prasad. “The decision has been taken to speed up the vaccination process in the state and ensure that registered beneficiaries can get the jab at any time depending on their convenience,” he added.
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