PM Modi to launch vaccine drive, first checklist up

PRIME Minister Narendra Modi will launch the beginning of the Covid-19 vaccination drive Saturday, connecting with 3,006 vaccination websites throughout the nation by way of video-conferencing.
The Prime Minister’s Office stated Modi will handle the websites, the place over three crore precedence teams shall be vaccinated over the following few months, at 10.30 am. “Around 100 beneficiaries will be vaccinated at each session site on the inaugural day,” the federal government stated.
Senior Health Ministry officers stated the beneficiary checklist for the primary day has already been uploaded on the Co-WIN platform. “The vaccination session is from 9 am to 5 pm. Whoever comes till 5 pm will be vaccinated even after 5 pm, just like how it happens in elections,” an official stated.
“Since the bulk registration of healthcare workers has already taken place, they need not individually register. States have been told to ensure that the session sites, including the list of vaccinators and beneficiaries, is ready two days prior to each vaccination round. Therefore, for Day 1, states have finalised the beneficiary list,” the official added.
Sources stated that the request by Jammu & Kashmir and Chhattisgarh to offer an offline mechanism to add real-time knowledge, given their distant places the place Internet connectivity isn’t robust, has been authorised and a system for a similar shared. “However, directions have been given that the upload of the offline data be done the same day to ensure that people are not missed,” an official stated.
The authorities has additionally created a devoted 24X7 helpline quantity — 1075 — to deal with queries associated to the vaccine rollout and the Co-WIN software program.
The Health Ministry additionally introduced that the following National Polio Immunisation Day has been rescheduled to January 31, from January 17, including that this was in step with the coverage that “Covid management and vaccination services as well as non-Covid essential health services proceed in tandem without adversely impacting each other”.