Special: Vax sites expect better turnout after govt allows walk-in immunisation
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Wed, Jan 20 2021 19:27 IST |
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The Union Health Ministry on Wednesday asked people not to download or register on several fradulant applications named CoWIN which are available on app-stores. Image Source: IANS News
New Delhi, Jan 20 : The government has updated the Co-WIN application and allowed the vaccination sites to manually add the beneficiaries expected to undergo the inoculation exercise, who earlier, were randomly picked by the application itself.
The latest tweak in the app is expected to increase the turnout at the government hospitals who are struggling to reach even the half-way mark of their vaccination target.
Express News Service
NEW DELHI: The second day of Covid vaccination drive in the national capital failed to achieve even half the day’s target as only 3,598 beneficiaries received the jab against the government’s goal of inoculating 8,100. According to the Delhi government, only 44 per cent of the targeted health workers received the vaccines on Monday. However, the state’s figure didn’t match with that of the central government. As per the Union Health Ministry, only 3,111 beneficiaries received their dose in Delhi on Monday.
On Saturday, which was the first day of the pan-India vaccination, as many as 4,319 beneficiaries had received the shot in the city. While no vaccination was carried out on Sunday, the tally on Monday dropped by 721 compared to Saturday’s figure.
The first batch of Oxford COVID-19 Covishield vaccine had reached Delhi s central storage facility at Rajiv Gandhi Super Specialty Hospital (RGSSH) on January 12.
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Covid-19 Vaccination Drive Gets Underway in Delhi on Day Two; Over 4,000 Healthcare Workers Inoculated
A medic administers the first dose of Covishield vaccine to a frontline worker in the presence of Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan, after the virtual launch of COVID-19 vaccination drive by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, at AIIMS in New Delhi, Saturday, Jan. 16, 2021. (PTI Photo)
The immunisation drive in Delhi was formally kicked off on Saturday by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal from the LNJP Hospital, the state-run facility which offered yeoman service during the pandemic last year.