Updated Dec 15, 2020 · 07:23 pm Health workers in Ahmedabad collect personal data from a man on December 14 as they prepare a list during a door-to-door survey for the coronavirus vaccination drive in India. | Amit Dave/Reuters
India’s massive immunisation programme against the coronavirus will involve five-member vaccination teams inoculating 100 to 200 people in each session per day, internet-enabled sites, and using the latest electoral roll to identify priority population over the age of 50, PTI reported on Monday, citing the operational guidelines issued by the health ministry to states.
Experts said that vaccinating a billion people, including hundreds of millions of adults for the first time, against Covid-19 would be a daunting task in the first tranche. The 113-page guideline document explores how best to deploy the vaccine whenever it is authorised for use in the country, according to NDTV.
India’s Covid-19 vaccination guidelines have proposed a nationwide surveillance network to detect and respond to possible adverse events after immunisation (AEFI) that experts say would be critical for evaluation of vaccines approved under emergency use authorisation.
The guidelines prepared by the Union health ministry would require every vaccination session site across the country to be linked to an AEFI management centre located at a primary health centre, a community health centre, a district hospital or a private hospital.
The AEFI surveillance would also require doctors to “ask and record” a history of Covid-19 vaccination in patients during out-patient or emergency consultations and report any symptoms that have occurred after immunisation telephonically to designated local health officials.
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Top headlines: Farmer leaders to observe 9-hour hunger strike and other important stories you shouldn t miss
Take a look at the important events and news for Monday (December 14).
Karishma Jain
Dec 14, 2020, 07:35 AM IST
From farmer leaders observing 9-hour hunger strike to COVID vaccine campaign launching in US with convoy of trucks, here are the top headlines for Monday you should not miss.
1. Farmer leaders to observe 9-hour hunger strike today
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Leaders of agitating farmer unions said they will hold a one-day hunger strike on Monday and protests will be held in all district headquarters to press their demand for the repeal of the new farm laws. Farmer leader Gurnam Singh Chaduni said the leaders will observe the hunger strike at their respective places between 8 AM to 5 PM on Monday. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said he too will observe a day-long fast today. (Image; ANI)
Kolkata, reimagined: Can it regain the spirit of enterprise, and become the shining city on the Hooghly? December 15, 2020, 4:51 PM IST
The writer is a professor of communications and diplomacy at Norwich University, Vermont
In spite of Mumbai’s Bollywood glitter and New Delhi’s political whirligig, Kolkata has remained India’s cultural and intellectual capital since the Bengali renaissance in the 19th century. Few other cities in India have such a deep layer of a most privileged class of elites – artists, musicians, filmmakers, painters, poets, writers, economists and academics – whose overwhelming presence dwarfs everything else, including unfortunately, the entrepreneurial spirit of the people. Which has created a most damaging myth, a dangerous half-truth, as Sharmila Tagore lamented – an oft-repeated dirge – that Bengalis do not make good businessmen.
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