3495 A beneficiary gets the Covid jab at the Civil Hospital in Sector 6, Panchkula, on Friday. RAVI KUMAR
Tribune News Service
Panchkula, January 29
At 10.7 per cent, the lowest vaccination turnout was recorded on January 18.
As many as 376 healthcare workers took the first jab against the target of 1,140, the Health Department said.
Despite vaccination being held at 13 session sites, the coverage rate stood at 33 per cent – far lowest than first day’s coverage of 94.7 per cent.
The vaccination drive is being held at Civil Dispensary, Sector 7, National Health Mission (NHM) office, Civil Hospital, Sub-Divisional Hospital, Kalka, Primary Health Centre (PHC), Morni, PHC, Nanakpur, PHC, Pinjore, PHC, Surajpur, PHC, Old Panchkula, Community Health Centre (CHC), Raipur Rani, PHC, Barwala, PHC, Hangola, and PHC, Kot.
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Panchkula, January 16
A 40-year-old sanitation worker was given the first Covid-19 vaccine at the Civil Dispensary in Sector 4 here as Panchkula began its mass vaccination drive at three centres today. She was the first beneficiary from the district as well as the state to get the jab.
The worker identified as, Saroj Bala, who has been working at the same dispensary for the past 20 years, received a Covishield jab.
While interacting with mediapersons Saroj said she was feeling fine after getting vaccinated. She was subsequently kept at the observation room for 30 minutes to watch for any side-effects of the vaccine.
3314 A health worker takes part in the dry run of the Covid vaccine at the Primary Health Centre in Sector 16, Panchkula. file
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Public scrutiny is a must
The approval for the emergency use of the Covaxin to Serum Institute s Covishield and Bharat Biotech by the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) had cleared the last hurdle before the start of the vaccination drive in India. The government appointed Subject Expert Committee was convinced that Covaxin s inactivated virus may be more effective against mutations. Lack of transparency surrounding trials data, fast-tracking of data scrutiny and doubts over vaccine dosage and mutations have raised concerns. But India is no exception here. Each country is adopting different approaches. Globally, many view approving of vaccines to combat the Covid pandemic as inordinate haste. The DCGI must make a clean analysis of the submitted data and continue to share
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Gujarat And Haryana Confirmed To Be Hit By Bird Flu; Total Six States Affected So Far
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In a serious development, following Rajasthan, Kerala, Himachal Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, the states of Gujarat and Haryana have also confirmed that they have been hit by avian influenza (bird flu), reports
Times of India.
The samples taken from two poultry farms in Haryana s Panchkula district and of migratory birds from Gujarat s Junagarh district have tested positive for the H5N8 virus which causes the disease. The samples were tested at Bopal-based ICAR-National Institute of High-Security Animal Diseases (ICAR-NIHSAD).