With the Centre gearing up for the Covid-19 vaccine rollout, one other spherical of dry run shall be carried out throughout the nation, besides Uttar Pradesh and Haryana, on January 8. The train is being performed to make sure environment friendly planning and administration for vaccine supply in every district. The first spherical of dry run was held on January 2.
Uttar Pradesh and Haryana have already carried out the mock drills in all districts on January 5 and seven, respectively.
“The entire planning of the vaccination drive including beneficiary registration, microplanning and vaccination at the planned session site, will be tested under the leadership of District Collector or District Magistrate. The dry run will also familiarize the state, district, block and hospital-level officers on all aspects of vaccine roll-out,” the Union Ministry of Health stated.
“This activity will help administrators in strengthening the linkages between planning, implementation and reporting mechanisms, identification of any residual challenges prior to the actual implementation and to provide confidence to the programme managers at all levels to carry out a smooth implementation of the vaccination drive,” it added.
Be ready, vaccine more likely to be despatched shortly: Centre to states, UTs
The Centre has additionally requested states and union territories to stay ready as they’re more likely to obtain the primary provide of Covid-19 vaccine shortly.
In a communique, the ministry stated the vaccine shall be provided to the recognized consignee factors of 19 states and union territories — Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Gujarat, Haryana, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha, Punjab, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal — by the provider.
Empty mattress inside a Covid-19 hospital in Ahmedabad, Gujarat.
The vaccine for remaining 18 states and union territories — Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Arunachal Pradesh, Chandigarh, Daman and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, Goa, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, Lakshadweep, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Puducherry, Sikkim, Tripura and Uttarakhand — shall be obtained from their respective authorities medical retailer depots.
The ministry additionally stated that additional distribution of vaccine to districts shall be performed as per the registered beneficiaries, for which a separate communication shall be issued within the coming days.
Volunteer enrolment for Phase-3 medical trials full: BharatBiotech
Bharat Biotech Thursday introduced the profitable completion of volunteer enrolment for Phase-3 medical trials of Covaxin, the vaccine candidate developed by the corporate. Suchitra Ella, Joint Managing Director, Bharat Biotech, in a launch stated that 25,000 volunteers have been enrolled.
Announcing profitable completion of volunteer enrolment for Phase-3 Clinical trials of COVAXIN??.#BharatBiotech #COVAXIN #clinicaltrials #Covid19 #CovidVaccine #phase3 https://t.co/lIdXVpstDK
— BharatBiotech (@BharatBiotech) January 7, 2021
The nation’s medicine regulator on Sunday accepted Oxford-AstraZeneca’s Covishield and indigenously developed Covaxin of Bharat Biotech for restricted emergency use within the nation.
Extend ban on UK flights until Jan 31: Kejriwal
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Thursday urged the Centre to increase the ban on flights between India and the UK until January 31 in view of the “extremely serious” Covid-19 scenario in that nation.
Centre has determined to elevate the ban and begin UK flights.
In view of extraordinarily critical COVID scenario in UK, I wud urge central govt to increase the ban until 31 Jan
— Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal) January 7, 2021
In a tweet, Kejriwal stated: “Centre has decided to lift the ban and start UK flights. In view of extremely serious COVID situation in the UK, I wud urge central govt to extend the ban till 31 Jan.”
The Aviation Ministry, final week, had stated that flights from India to the UK will resume from January 6, whereas companies from that nation to right here would resume January 8 onwards. In a tweet, Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri had stated, “30 flights will operate every week. 15 each by Indian & UK carriers. This schedule is valid till 23 Jan 2021. Further frequency will be determined after review.”
Following the emergence of a brand new and extra contagious variant of the coronavirus, India had suspended all passenger flights connecting the 2 international locations from December 23 to January 7.
