NOIDA/GHAZIABAD: Covid vaccines were transported to four centres in Ghaziabad on Friday for the inaugural day inoculation drive on Saturday. About 400 healthcare workers will be vaccinated between 10am and 4pm. Similarly, in neighbouring Gautam Budh Nagar, vaccines were sent to 13 cold chains from the district vaccine store in Sector 39. From the cold chains, the vaccines will be sent to the designated six centres early on Saturday morning, where about 600 healthcare workers will receive the shots.
Though a government doctor will be deputed at each centre in both the districts to deal with any adverse effects following immunisation (AEFI) cases, Government Institute of Medical Sciences (GIMS) in Greater Noida and District Hospital in Noida Sector 30 will be the main centres to deal with any adverse cases. Sharda hospital has also kept a 30-bed ICU ready for the purpose.
Covid vaccination: Final preparations underway for pan-India rollout of vaccines
Frontline health workers queue to receive a dose of a Covid-19 vaccine at the Cooper hospital in Mumbai.
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Final preparations are underway for the nationwide rollout of the coronavirus vaccination drive, which will be launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi today.
PM Modi will also interact with the first beneficiaries of the vaccine after launching the massive vaccination drive against the novel coronavirus.
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Billed as the world s biggest vaccination programme, covering the entire length and breadth of the country, the drive aims to first inoculate millions of its healthcare and frontline workers and reach an estimated 3 crore people by the end of its first phase.
Maharashtra may go the UK way for maximum spread
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Synopsis The Indian government has procured an initial 12 million doses from Serum Institute, which makes Covishield, and Bharat Biotech, maker of Covaxin.
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An Indian expert said, based on the data, the gap could be even longer for the vaccine made by SII based on AstraZeneca-Oxford technology.
Mumbai: Maharashtra may delay the second dose of the Covid-19 vaccine by up to six weeks, similar to the strategy that countries such as the UK and Canada have adopted in order to inoculate as many people as possible. The state is also set to inoculate people as soon as supplies are received, without keeping aside half for the second dose. These will then be given from further supplies.
Greece kicked off COVID-19 vaccinations among the elderly on Saturday, after first inoculating tens of thousands of frontline workers to fight the spread of the coronavirus. More than 75,000 healthcare workers and nursing home residents and carers have received the shot of the vaccine produced by Pfizer/BioNTech since Greece rolled out the plan along with other EU countries last month. Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Friday that Greece aims to have 2 million people inoculated by March.