COVID-19 Vaccination | 1,91,181 beneficiaries vaccinated as day 1 of world s biggest inoculation drive concludes | Highlights
COVID-19 Vaccination: The government has planned to vaccinate around 3 lakh healthcare workers at 2,934 session sites on the first day of the inoculation drive.
Updated: Sat, 16 Jan 2021 08:15 PM IST
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New Delhi | Jagran News Desk: At least 1,91,181 healthcare beneficiaries received COVID-19 jab on Saturday across India, marking it as a historic and biggest COVID-19 vaccination drive launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. About 16,755 total vaccinators involved across India during the COVID vaccination drive. There was no post adverse event reported after the vaccination was administered to the people.
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Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan (Centre) visits a Covid-19 vaccination center during a vaccine delivery system trial in New Delhi. (AP)
The first phase of the vaccination will cover 30 crore Indians – three crore healthcare workers and frontline workers and about 27 crore people who are above the age of 50 years and those with associated comorbidities.
Last week, during a dry run drill for the Covid-19 vaccination programme, authorities in Chhattisgarh’s health department came across a peculiar problem. The Co-Win application, which will be the backbone for the mega vaccination drive, didn’t accept registrations for Gaurela-Pendra-Marwahi district. The newly formed district in Chhattisgarh, carved out of Bilaspur in February 2020, does not have a pincode and this brought to the fore the issue on the app, said TS Singh Deo, the state’s health ministe
Private hospitals in the state can vaccinate their doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers on their campus using their own manpower, the Bengal government conveyed to the heads of private hospitals at a meeting on Saturday.
The state health department will begin training vaccinators in private hospitals to administer the Covid-19 vaccine from next week. The department will also be choosing the private hospitals that can be made vaccination sites for their staff.
The decisions were communicated to the private hospitals by the secretary of the state government’s health department at the meeting called to discuss the implementation of the Swasthya Sathi scheme, a cashless health insurance project of the state government.
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Although the centre has informed states that it will take care of the procurement of vaccines, the state governments are not sure as to what expense formula would be adopted for the mass vaccination drive.
Nearly a week has passed since India’s central drugs regulator granted restricted approval to vaccines against Covid-19, however, the state governments are still awaiting clarity on the financial burden of the vaccines on their exchequer.
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More general beds would be released than ICU beds. The infection rate in the state has been falling since September. Kolkata: General beds at private hospitals to be released | Photo Credit: PTI
Kolkata: Covid beds at private hospitals that were taken up by the West Bengal government since March will be released after there is a fall in the number of Covid cases in the state.
According to sources of the
Times of India, more general beds would be released than ICU beds. The infection rate in West Bengal has been falling since September and the number of people requiring hospitalisation has come down.