Covid vaccination: 8100 to get jab on day one in Delhi ANI | Updated: Jan 16, 2021 16:19 IST
New Delhi [India], January 16 (ANI): Delhi Health Minister Satyendra Jain on Saturday said the vaccination drive has started at 81 centres in the national capital and 100 people would get their first of the two doses at each centre. Most of the Delhi government hospitals are serving as vaccination sites. The second phase will see the vaccination of frontline workers. Then, the third phase will cater to the people over age 50, and below 50 with co-morbidities. Right now, we are in Rajiv Gandhi Super Speciality Hospital, Lok Nayak Jay Prakash Hospital also is one of the sites, Jain said.
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Two passengers who arrived in India from the United Kingdom, and left isolation centres after testing positive for the coronavirus at the Delhi airport have been tracked down at their homes in Andhra Pradesh and Punjab, reported NDTV. The two have been admitted to government facilities.
Following the emergence of a new strain of the coronavirus in the UK, the Centre has made RT-PCR tests mandatory for people arriving from the country. Flights connecting India and the UK have also been suspended from December 23 to December 31.
In one of the cases, a 47-year old woman tested positive, but was asymptomatic, upon landing in Delhi on December 21, according to PTI. The woman was then taken to Safdarjung Hospital in the national Capital, where she was advised home isolation. However, she and her 22-year-old son, who had come to receive her, took a train to Andhra Prad