Kerala ready; Vaccination drive to start from Saturday
- by Joy Garcia
- in Medicine
- — Jan 21, 2021
The first phase of the COVID-19 vaccination drive will cover three crore healthcare and frontline workers, as they are getting vaccinated first in this drive.
A medical worker gives a coronavirus vaccine shot to a patient in New Delhi on January 16, 2021.
The Serum Institute of India has manufactured the shots developed by the UK's University of Oxford and drugmaker AstraZeneca, according to Md Abdul Mannan.
Pennsylvania will prioritize people 65 and older and others with certain conditions for covid-19 vaccination, even as thousands of health care workers remain unvaccinated and frustration grows over the availability and allotment of the limited vaccine supply.
On Saturday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched India's vaccination drive against the novel coronavirus via video conferencing.
The health minister added that the Covid-19 positivity rate in the national capital has come down to 0.44 per cent.
Just six states carried out vaccinations on Sunday, the second day of the rollout.
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Likewise, Community Health Centres (CHCs)/ Urban CHCs shall conduct one session per day and the target for session is 100. Federal officials said Canada will only get half its promised shipments of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine over the next four weeks.
More than several millions of doses of the two approved vaccines, namely the Covaxin and the Covishield were shipped across the nation that led up to the beginning of the drive.
Vaccine hesitancy has emerged as a major concern, with a recent survey of 18,000 people across India finding that 69 per cent were in no rush to get a shot.
The administration will start the vaccination drive again from Monday.
"No side effects have been reported so far from healthcare warriors who took the Covishield and Covaxin injections on Saturday and Sunday".
India has the world's second-largest known caseload with more than 10.5 million coronavirus infections and over 152,000 deaths so far.
