Maharashtra: 3.45 lakh frontline staff get covid vaccine shot

A complete of three.45 healthcare staff in Maharashtra have obtained the coronavirus vaccine to this point. Of these, as many as 3585 healthcare staff obtained the Covaxin (made by Bharat Biotech) vaccine shot throughout six centres within the state. The highest numbers are at Amravati (1101) adopted by Nagpur (703)and Pune (558).
Dr D N Patil, state immunization officer instructed The Indian Express on Thursday that there are six centres within the state the place Covaxin pictures are being administered together with Mumbai, Solapur and Aurangabad. “We have already increased the number of centres from 511 to 555 and will step it up further,” he mentioned including that there have been no main adversarial occasions associated to the vaccination.
According to Dr Sanjay Deshmukh, Deputy Director, Pune area – that features Pune, Solapur and Satara districts – a complete of 250 frontline staff got the vaccine shot on Wednesday.

Mumbai, Thane and Pune are among the many prime districts with the utmost variety of well being care staff getting vaccinated. Till date, the full variety of well being care staff who received the shot within the three prime districts included – 38,444 in Mumbai Suburban, 34,247 in Thane and 32,468 in Pune.
Meanwhile, a survey performed by LocalCircles has discovered that there’s a various diploma of enthusiasm that has been noticed amongst residents ever because the inoculation of two vaccines—Covishield and Covaxin—commenced on January 16. “We conducted a survey last week and received over 25,000 responses from citizens located in 289 districts of India. Despite close to 5 million healthcare workers getting vaccinated in 2 weeks, 58% citizens remain hesitant to take the COVID-19 vaccine immediately,” mentioned Sachin Taparia, founding father of LocalCircles, a group social media platform enabling residents and small companies to escalate points for coverage and enforcement intervention.

“Our earlier vaccine hesitancy survey released on January 27 indicated that 60% of citizens were still hesitant to COVID-19 vaccine immediately. Vaccination hesitancy is reducing week over week with a 16% drop in hesitancy within the last month. However, the hesitancy level of 58% is still quite high and the polls in this study indicate that one sure-shot way of reducing the vaccine hesitancy is leaders in Central and State Governments, MPs and MLAs taking the vaccine,” Taparia mentioned.