Azhar Hussain was given a “Covid vaccine shot” with an empty syringe in Saran district.
Sunita Devi was given a Covishield shot by a nurse and a Covaxin shot by another all within five minutes in Patna district.
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Manoj Kumar and 25 others in Bhagalpur district received certificates on their mobile phones “confirming” they had taken the first dose of Covishield when they had not taken any shots at all.
A series of fiascos has raised concern about the arrangements, monitoring, efficiency, safety and accountability of the Covid vaccination process in Bihar, which has launched a campaign to inoculate six crore people in six months.
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Average turnout for vaccination across 4 days was nearly 55%, said State health officials
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A medic administers the first dose of COVID-19 vaccine to a frontline worker, at Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences in Patna, on January 16, 2021. | Photo Credit:
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Average turnout for vaccination across 4 days was nearly 55%, said State health officials After days of lukewarm response from frontline health workers for COVID-19 vaccine jabs in Bihar, the turnout rose sharply on Thursday as the State Health Department started registration for the second phase of the vaccination drive.
When the first phase of the drive began on January 16, 62% health workers and doctors turned up. On January 18, the figure dipped to 51.2%, and it fell further on January 19 as only 50.1% registered participants showed up at the 301 centres set up across the State. Out of the total 74,900 frontline health workers who were scheduled to take the vaccine, only 47,402
Patna: Health department authorities are working overtime to trace everyonewho returned to Bihar from the United Kingdom where a new strain of COVID-19 was found.
Authorities said 45 of the total 226 passengers who returned from the UK still remain traceless despite their constant efforts to find them. According to information provided by the health department, a total of 226 passengers have returned to Bihar from the UK since November 21. Of them, 181 have been traced but 45 still remain missing, health officials informed.
“We are constantly trying to locate the missing returnees. We have sent the names, contact numbers and address of passengers to the district medical officers concerned to track them and collect their swab samples,” Patna’s civil surgeon Vibha Kumari Singh told the media on Saturday.