The Government of India has mentioned that over 1 lakh beneficiaries have been trained for vaccine dry run and over 75,000 beneficiaries are registered in the Co-WIN software already.
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Dry run, an exercise for end-to-end testing of the COVID-19 vaccination process, was held smoothly in five districts of Karnataka on Saturday. It was held at Kalaburagi, Shivamogga, Mysuru, Belagavi, and Bengaluru districts in which 25 beneficiaries, including designated health staff at each of the identified Primary Health Centres, taluk and district hospitals, participated. Officials said that everything needed to conduct Covid-19 vaccination, excluding the actual vaccine shots, were part of the dry run. Health Minister K Sudhakar told reporters after visiting the General Hospital at Yelahanka where the dry run was held, that everything went off smoothly as per protocol and the state is prepared for the actual process, once it gets the vaccine.
Updated Jan 02, 2021 | 16:28 IST
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New Delhi [India], January 2 (ANI): Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan arrived at Guru Teg Bahadur (GTB) hospital here on Saturday to review the dry run of administering the COVID-19 vaccine.