Chhattisgarh will now be vaccinated with Covaxin too. 35 thousand doses of covaxine can arrive today. Let me tell you that Kovaxin is made by Bharat Biotech company.
At the beginning of the corona vaccination campaign in the state, KoviShield vaccine health workers were deployed. Kovyshield’s vaccine is being applied in the ongoing vaccination campaign. At the same time, health workers will also be vaccinated with covaxine.
The first consignment of Kovaxin may come to Raipur today. According to the information, 35 thousand doses can come today.
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Vaccination will also be done in Chhattisgarh by vaccine, today 35 thousand doses can come
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State 2.67 lakhs to be vaccinated, but only 6% felt, 2.65 lakh doses of vaccine and more
A second consignment of 2.65 lakh doses of Kovishield was reached by a flight from Raipur Indigo Airlines. 26,500 vials have arrived in 23 boxes. It has 2.65 lakh doses. Raipur district will get 30 thousand doses i.e. 3 thousand violations in the second batch. 2 lakh 67 thousand have to be vaccinated in the state, but only 16258 have been vaccinated so far. That is, only 6 percent have been vaccinated. In Raipur, 5383 health workers were vaccinated on Wednesday. On the other hand, 1.12 lakh health workers were vaccinated in 20 states and union territories. With this, more than 7.86 lakh health workers have been vaccinated across the country. In the first phase of vaccination in all 28 districts of the state, vaccines are being given to health and front line workers. According to the State Immunization Officer Dr. Amarsingh Thakur, the second phase of vaccination will be done after the first round of 2.67 lakh vaccines.
After the second shipment on Wednesday, the state has received 5.9 lakh vaccines so far. Vaccines will be distributed according to need from the State Vaccine Store in up to 28 districts.
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Medical van driver, ex-MCI chief get vaccine among others in Gujarat
By PTI
AHMEDABAD: A medical van driver from Rajkot, along with doctors, on Saturday became one of the first beneficiaries of COVID-19 vaccine in Gujarat on the first day of the inoculation drive.The drive began at 161 centres in the state where the vaccine jabs were administered to health workers almost simultaneously.
Former president of Medical Council of India (MCI) Dr Ketan Desai, was the second person to receive the vaccine at civil hospital in Ahmedabad.
In Ahmedabad civil hospital, the first doses of vaccine were given to doctors in the presence of Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani and deputy Chief Minister Nitin Patel.
Medical Superintendents of Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar civil hospitals will get the vaccine besides more than 16,000 health workers in the state during the day.
In one of the centres in Rajkot, Ashokbhai, who drives a medical van, became the first recipient of the vaccine.
“I am honoured that my name has been selected for first dose of vaccine at this centre in Rajkot. I didn’t have any apprehension about getting this vaccine. Everyone should take it,” Ashok bhai told reporters.
Vaccines are being given across six centers in Rajkot.
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Dr Ketan Desai said, “Nobody should have fear of side effects of this vaccine as it has passed through many trials and experts have certified it”.
Gujarat Immunisation Officer Dr Nayan Jani said the state state Health department has identified 4.31 lakh health workers, such as doctors and nurses, for the first phase of the vaccine drive starting tomorrow.
“After health workers, 6.93 lakh frontline workers, such as police personnel, 1.05 crore citizens above the age of 50 and 2.75 lakh people under 50 with comorbidities will be covered under the vaccination drive,” he said.
He said vaccine shots will be administered to 100 health workers per centre every day.
“Beneficiaries will get an SMS through CO-WIN application about address of the centre and other instructions,” said Jani.
Around 15,000 vaccinators have already been trained by the Health department and the entire administration is fully prepared to roll out the drive in Gujarat, he added.
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COVID-19 vaccination begins in West Bengal; great day for humankind, says first recipient
By PTI
KOLKATA: The COVID-19 vaccination drive began in West Bengal on Saturday morning, with a doctor of a private hospital receiving the first shot, officials said.Bipasha Seth is the first person who got inoculated in the state, the hospital authorities said.
“It’s a great day for humankind. I feel elated to get the first dose,” said Seth.
West Bengal’s Minister of State for Labour Nirmal Maji also received the Covishield vaccine at the Kolkata Medical College and Hospital, the officials said.
The vaccination programme started around 10.30 am at 212 session sites, including medical colleges, urban primary healthcare centres and a few private hospitals, they said.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the nationwide rollout of the COVID-19 vaccination drive via video conferencing earlier in the day.
Around 1,800 health workers have been selected for inoculation on Saturday, the officials said.
“Today is a big day for us. It seems we are slowly coming out of the pandemic, which has claimed so many lives. We were in a state of depression for the last one year. From today, we will again relive our lives,” Urban Development Minister Firhad Hakim said.
Hakim said Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will hold a virtual meeting with officials at 1 pm to monitor the vaccination process.
Around 90,000 frontline health workers at government and private hospitals have been enrolled for the first phase in West Bengal.
Kolkata has been allocated the highest number of 93,500 doses, followed by North 24 Parganas district (47,000) and Murshidabad (37,500).
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Woman sanitation worker gets first vaccine dose in Chhattisgarh
By PTI
RAIPUR: A 51-year-old woman sanitation worker at a government hospital was the first person to get the coronavirus vaccine shot in Chhattisgarh after the launch of the nationwide inoculation drive on Saturday.Health officials here said the vaccination began in 97 centres across the state, after Prime Minister Narendra Modi formally inaugurated the drive from Delhi.
“Tulsa Tandi, a Swacchtakarmi (sanitation worker) at the Dr B R Ambedkar Memorial Hospital Raipur since 2008, was the first person to get vaccinated in the state”, the state director for the National Health Mission Priyanka Shukla told PTI.
Tandi was administered the Covishield vaccine at the local Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru Medical College, which is among five vaccination sites in Raipur district, she said adding that drive is underway in all 28 districts in the state.
Around 2.67 lakh health workers and other frontline staff were registered to receive vaccine shots during the first phase of the drive in the state, said Shukla, who is also the state nodal officer for coronavirus vaccination drive.
The other four vaccination centres in Raipur district are All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Raipur, District hospital Pandri, NHMMI private hospital and Mission hospital Tilda.
Each vaccination centre has vaccinators, monitoring staff, record examiners, and security personnel and a nodal officer, another health official here said.
After the vaccination, beneficiaries will be kept in the observation room for 30 minutes and in case they show adverse effects they will be immediately provided treatment at the hospital, he said.
Altogether 100 beneficiaries are expected to be administered vaccine at each centre daily, he said.
Chhattisgarh has received 3.23 lakh Covishield vaccine doses from the Serum Institute of India as part of the first consignment for the vaccination drive, he said.
So far, 7,116 vaccinators have been given training for the initial phase of the drive in the state, he said.
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Vaccine will reach the districts of Bastar and Surguja divisions today, vaccination preparations complete
As soon as the first consignment of Corona vaccine arrived in Chhattisgarh, distribution was started to the districts of Raipur, Durg and Bilaspur divisions. From today vaccines will be sent to the districts of Bastar and Surguja divisions. Personnel and frontline workers in the health sector will be vaccinated. State Immunization Officer Dr. Amar Singh Thakur informed that the distribution of vaccines has been started from the state vaccine stores to the districts. Three lakh 23 thousand vaccines of ‘Kovishield’ made by Serum Institute of India have been received by the state. Distribution will also begin in the districts of Bastar and Surguja divisions from today on Thursday. According to protocol, the Health Department has made adequate arrangements for transportation and storage of these vaccines in all districts of the state. Mockdrills for vaccination in all districts and rehearsal to deal with emergencies have also been done. An insulated vaccine van has been arranged to send the vaccine from the state vaccine stores to the districts. For this, one state level, three regional and 27 district level cold chain points have been created. There are currently 630 functional cold chain points and more than 85 thousand liters of cold chain space for safe storage and transport of vaccines in the state. Along with this, 81 additional cold chain points have also been established. There are 1311 cold-boxes available for transport of the vaccine. 360 dry-storage has also been made for the storage of syringes, needles and other materials. 99 sites have been identified for vaccine launch in the state. A total of two lakh 67 thousand 399 health-care workers, state and central employees and the armed forces will be vaccinated. Information about all these has been entered in the Kovin portal. 7116 vaccination personnel have been identified and trained for vaccination. Kovid-19 vaccination has been rehearsed at 83 places in all 28 districts. AEFI – Adverse Event Following Immunization management system has been strengthened from the state level to the vaccination sites for the management of any adverse event or emergency after vaccination. All vaccination centers have been linked to the nearest AEFI management system such as medical colleges, district hospitals or community health centers.
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Vaccine van held up as TMC minister blocks highway over farm laws
By PTI
BURDWAN: A special vehicle carrying COVID-19 vaccines got held up on Wednesday in West Bengal’s Purba Bardhaman district due to a blockade of the national highway led by state minister Siddiqullah Chowdhury, protesting against the new farm laws, sources said.Purba Bardhaman’s Superintendent of Police Bhaskar Mukhopadhyay said that the vaccine-carrying insulated van was diverted over a distance of five km through a village owing to the blockade of the national highway, connecting Kolkata and New Delhi, at the Galsi area.
The delay in the movement of the vehicle was for the time taken to cover the five km distance through the village, he said.
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Unofficial sources, however, claimed that the vehicle had to traverse village roads for a distance of 20 kms before it could be brought back to the national highway again.
The van, which was being piloted by the West Bengal Police, was on its way to Bankura and Purulia to deliver the vaccines.
After leaving the state government’s vaccine store in Kolkata, the vehicle delivered 31,500 vaccines at Purba Bardhaman district health office and was on its way to deliver the life-saving vaccines to Bankura and Purulia when its onward journey was stopped at around 10 am owing to the blockade, despite a green corridor having been arranged by the police for its smooth and fast movement, sources said.
Chowdhury, the state library services minister, said he was not aware of the movement of the vaccine van and cleared the road once it was brought to his notice that the vehicle was held up, but by that time it was already diverted.
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COVID-19: 4.5 lakh health workers to be vaccinated in first phase in Rajasthan, says Health Minister
By PTI
JAIPUR: Preparations for rolling out COVID-19 vaccination programme in Rajasthan have been made and around 4.5 lakh health workers will be vaccinated in the first phase, Health Minister Raghu Sharma said on Sunday.Sharma said data of 4,36,146 government and private sector health workers had been uploaded on COVIN (COVID-19 Vaccine Intelligence Network) software by 1 pm on Saturday.
He said the first phase of vaccination will be conducted at 282 sessions sites from January 16 onwards.
Of them, two sites including Jaipur and Ajmer will be interactive.
“Rajasthan is all prepared for the vaccination programme. 3,689 medical institutions in the government sector and 2,969 medical institutions in the private sector have been identified for the vaccination programme in the first phase and 5,626 vaccination parties have been trained,” he said at a press conference here.
He said the government has set up three state-level, seven divisional-level, 34 (medical) district-level vaccine stores, and 2,444 cold chain points are functional at community and primary health centres.
Sharma said 18,654 vaccinators have been trained so far.
The orientation of 1,66,188 people in 10 categories including public representatives has been done so far, he added.
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Making arrangements for free COVID vaccine for everyone in Bengal, says CM Mamata Banerjee
By PTI
KOLKATA: The West Bengal government is making arrangements to provide free COVID vaccines to all the people of the state, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has said.In an open letter, Banerjee said the COVID warriors, including police, home guards, civil defence volunteers, correctional home and disaster management employees, will be administered the vaccine on a priority basis.
“I am happy to inform that our government is making arrangements for reaching the vaccine to all people of the state free of any charge,” the chief minister said in the letter addressed to the frontline workers.
Banerjee expressed her gratitude to all the COVID warriors for their selfless service to the people of West Bengal.
India is set to launch its COVID-19 vaccination drive from January 16 with priority to be given to nearly three crore healthcare and frontline workers across the country.
The chief minister’s announcement of free vaccination for everyone comes months ahead of the assembly elections, which are likely to be held in April-May.
Earlier, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan had made a similar announcement.
The southern state will also go to polls along with Bengal.
The Bihar government has also given the cabinet nod to provide free vaccine to every citizen of the state, a promise the BJP made in its manifesto for the assembly elections held in October-November.
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India to start COVID-19 vaccination drive on January 16
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