Coronavirus India Live Updates: Inoculation drive to start at over 3,000 centres throughout India

At a vaccination centre in Darya Ganj, Delhi. (Praveen Khanna)Coronavirus India Live Updates:  Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch the Covid-19 mass vaccination drive Saturday, connecting with over 3,000 vaccination websites throughout the nation through video-conferencing.
The beneficiary checklist of frontline employees  for the primary day has already been uploaded on the Co-WIN platform and vaccine pictures can be injected at designated centres from 9 am to five pm, senior well being officers mentioned. 
In its first section lasting until August, the nation is ready to vaccinate about 3 crore frontline employees, adopted by round 27 crore individuals above the age of fifty and others with co-morbidities. The Election Commission has agreed to a request from the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) to share electoral roll knowledge to determine individuals above the age of fifty in every polling state.
In a letter to states and UT’s , the Union Health Ministry highlighted a number of precautions in lieu to vaccines, cautioning using vaccines on lactating and pregnant girls together with individuals with a historical past of allergic reactions. 
Meanwhile, India recorded 16,946 new Covid-19 circumstances, within the final 24 hours ending 8 am Thursday, taking the entire tally to over 1.05 crore. Out of those, energetic circumstances additional dropped to 2.13 lakh, whereas recoveries went as much as over 1.01 crore. With 198 deaths reported on Wednesday, the dying toll stands at over 1.57 lakh. Kerala reported greater than 6,000 circumstances, its complete caseload now could be over 8.25 lakh. Maharashtra, with 3,556 new circumstances, was the one different state to report greater than 1,000 circumstances on Wednesday.
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Less than 2 days earlier than India begins its nationwide inoculation drive, about 95 per cent of 1.1 crore Covishield vaccine doses bought by the federal government have been delivered throughout the nation and the remaining 1 lakh vials can be delivered shortly, sources advised PTI. The first consignment of Oxford-Astrazeneca’s Covishield vaccine was dispatched from Pune early Tuesday.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Thursday mentioned that the Delhi authorities has “done and reviewed” all preparations for the Covid-19 vaccination drive, set to start on January 16. Giving out particulars of the inoculation train in Delhi, he mentioned that 81 centres can be allotted initially and over 8,000 frontline employees can be vaccinated on each scheduled day. For 4 days per week — Monday, Tuesday, Thursday & Saturday — about 100 individuals can be vaccinated at every of those centres every day.