Dry run for COVID-19 vaccination across India to begin today ANI | Updated: Jan 02, 2021 07:54 IST
New Delhi [India], January 2 (ANI): With the objective to gear up for the roll-out of COVID-19 vaccine across the country, the dry run will be conducted by all the States and UT governments from Saturday.
According to Union Health Ministry, the objective of the dry run for COVID-19 vaccine introduction is to assess operational feasibility in the use of COVID Vaccine Intelligence Network (Co-WIN) application in field environment, to test the linkages between planning and implementation and to identify the challenges and guide way forward prior to actual implementation . This is also expected to give confidence to programme managers at various levels, it said.
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Covid-19 vaccination: Govt to provide free vaccines to 1 cr healthcare, 2 cr frontline workers, in 1st phase
A health worker opens the deep freezer containing the vaccine during the dry run at a Primary Health Centre in Jaipur on Saturday. Himanshu Vyas/ ht
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New Delhi: The government will provide free vaccines to most prioritised beneficiaries inlcuding1 crore healthcare and 2 crore frontline workers, in the first phase of covid-19 vaccination that is expected to begin soon, union health minister Harsh Vardhan said on Saturday.
India trials national Covid-19 vaccination program 1 minute read
New Delhi, Jan 2 (efe-epa).- India began a nationwide trial of its Covid-19 vaccination program on Saturday, while it awaits approval of the emergency license for the candidate vaccine developed by Oxford University and British-Swedish pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca.
The first national trial is being conducted in 116 districts in the country home to some 1.35 billion people by 96,000 vaccinators at 285 centers to test logistics, inventory management and the effectiveness of the cold chain, which is vital for storing doses, the Indian Health Ministry reported.
The digital platform that will monitor patients and inform recipients of the corresponding vaccination center was also being tested, another fundamental issue for effectively completing the immunization cycle, overcoming the difficulties of its large population and the country’s mostly rural geographic complexity.