Poonch admin holds Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao programme on National Girl Child Day ANI | Updated: Jan 25, 2021 02:37 IST
Poonch (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], January 25 (ANI): Poonch district administration organised a programme themed Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao on the occasion of National Girl Child Day on Sunday.
Speaking to ANI, Khalida Zubain, a participant said, I have won many medals at State level in Taekwondo. It is important to provide equal opportunities to girls in all spheres.
Mohammad Tanvir, District Programme Officer, ICDS Project, Poonch said that the district administration celebrated Nation Girl Child Day on Sunday and the celebrations are being held from January 21 to January 26.
Amravati: District Programme Officer Ajay Sakhare and medical officer Ujjwala Mohod became the first beneficiaries as the Covid vaccination drive got off to an enthusiastic start in the district on Saturday morning.
Total 500 healthcare workers were administered the vaccine at two centres in the city and three in the district today. Each centre had registered a hundred health care workers for vaccination. The centres were District General Hospital and PDMC in the city, Sub District Hospital at Achalpur, Rural Hospital at Teosa and Primary Health Center at Anjangaon.Bari.
Today s 500 beneficiaries will be given the second dose 28 days later, civil surgeon Dr Shyamsundar Nikam said. In the first phase, 16,262 health care workers will be vaccinated, he added.
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Field feedback on the first day of the run was reviewed today through video conferencing with state and district programme officers by Joint Secretary (Public Health)
Detailed insights and feedback so obtained will help enrich the operational guidelines and IT platform and will strengthen the Covid-19 vaccination roll-out plan
New Delhi: The two-day dry run for the Covid-19 vaccination in Assam, Andhra Pradesh, Punjab, and Gujarat has been successfully conducted, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said on Tuesday.
Backed with the experience of rolling out Universal Immunization Programme (UIP) and conducting nationwide multiple wide-range injectable vaccination campaigns such as measles-rubella (MR) and Adult Japanese Encephalitis (JE) campaign, required steps are being undertaken to vaccinate priority population groups such as Health care workers, Frontline workers and people above 50 years for Covid-19.
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India Reports 14 More Cases of New UK Coronavirus Strain 29/12/2020
A man conducts COVID-19 tests in Delhi. Photo: PTI
New Delhi: Twenty people who returned to India from the United Kingdom have tested positive for the new UK variant genome of SARS-CoV-2 so far, the Union health ministry said on Wednesday.
The tally includes six people who were found positive for the new virus strain on Tuesday.
The ministry said the mutated UK strain was detected in eight samples at the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), one at the National Institute of Biomedical Genomics (NIBMG), Kalyani (near Kolkata), one at the National Institute of Virology (NIV) Pune, seven at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro-Sciences Hospital (NIMHANS) Bengaluru, two at the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) in Hyderabad and one at the Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB), Delhi.