Healthcare Workers To Receive Second Dose Of Covid-19 Vaccine From Today
Mumbai: Amid the ongoing nationwide inoculation drive against coronavirus, a second dose of COVID-19 will be given to those who took the first shot, mostly health care workers, starting Saturday.
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) on Friday informed that the cumulative number of health and border activists vaccinated against Covid19 has reached 77.66 lakh.
According to the provisional report at 6 pm today, 77,66,319 beneficiaries have been vaccinated through 1,63,587 sessions. These include 58,65,813 health workers (HCW) (58.9 per cent) and 19,00,506 frontline workers (21.2 per cent),” stated the press release by the health ministry.
A total of 2,61,309 beneficiaries were vaccinated by 6 pm today on the twentieth day of the nationwide COVID-19 vaccination. These include 50,837 health care workers and 2,10,472 frontline workers as per provisional figures. The final report will be completed by tonight.
On the other hand, eight states / UTs have reported less than 40 per cent coverage of registered health care workers. These are Delhi, Meghalaya, Punjab, Manipur, Tamil Nadu, Chandigarh, Nagaland and Puducherry.
States / Union Territories have been advised that all health care workers should be scheduled for vaccination at least once through February 20 and February 25 through mop-up rounds.
The timeliness of all frontline workers to be vaccinated at least once by March 1, 2021, and the mop-up rounds of frontline workers by March 6, 2021, are also advised.
Covishield – two vaccines manufactured by the Serum Institute of India and Covaxin of Bharat Biotech – has been approved by the drugs regulator for India’s restricted emergency use.
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