31,700 well being employees to be inoculated at the moment: UP Minister

UP Health Minister Jai Pratap Singh on Friday stated 31,700 well being employees could be administered Covid-19 vaccines on Saturday as the federal government begins its inoculation drive.
The photographs shall be administered at 311 centres throughout the state’s 75 districts on the primary day. The authorities has arrange 1,500 such centres to vaccinate round 9 lakh well being employees within the first part.
Health officers stated the state had obtained about 10.75 lakh vaccine doses. According to Jai Pratap Singh, 10.55 lakh of these are “Covishield” doses, whereas the remaining are “Covaxin”.
According to the rules, all authorities and non-government well being employees shall be vaccinated first. While 9 lakh well being employees are scheduled to obtain the photographs within the first three days, those that don’t get it for any cause shall be vaccinated on the fourth day.
“The vaccination for Covid-19 is starting from Saturday and on day one the vaccination will take place at 311 centres across all 75 districts in the state. The number will increase in the coming days. We have already received around 10.75 lakh doses of the vaccines and have been sent to all the districts. Our preparations, including the training of human resources, are complete. The vaccination on Saturday will start at 9 am and will go on till 5 pm as per all the protocols,” stated Additional Chief Secretary (Health) Amit Mohan Prasad.
He added, “The second dose will be after 28 days, and only after around two weeks from the second dose the body will develop immunity. This is why we cannot be relaxed yet and need to keep following the Covid appropriate behaviour.”

In the second part, frontline employees equivalent to police officers, jail personnel, residence guards, sanitation employees of city our bodies, income personnel engaged in work equivalent to civil defence and surveillance shall be vaccinated. In Phase-three, individuals above the age of fifty years, and people beneath 50 years who are suffering from severe ailments equivalent to most cancers and diabetes shall be vaccinated.
The minister stated all mandatory precautions could be taken in the course of the vaccination drive, including that safety preparations and CCTV cameras had been in place in any respect the 1,298 chilly chain factors.
With PTI inputs