Corona Vaccination LIVE: Vaccine Politics In Bengal As BJP Slams TMC For Stopping Trucks With Jabs
This will be the world's largest vaccination program covering the entire length and breadth of the country and all preparations are in place to initiate the programme .
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Total of 1,91,181 beneficiaries vaccinated for Coronavirus on day 1 of the massive nationwide vaccination drive: Ministry of Health & Family Welfare
Delhi government decides that the SII-manufactured Covishield vaccine will be administered at 75 Delhi govt and private hospitals and Bharat Biotech's COVAXIN will be given at 6 hospitals run by the Central government in the national capital. In the first phase, COVID-19 vaccination will begin at 81 sites in Delhi from tomorrow. A particular vaccine will be given at a particular centre because if a beneficiary receives a vaccine, they would need the second dose of that vaccine only: Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain.
PM Modi will kickstart the nationwide Covid-19 vaccination drive on Saturday at 10.30am via video conference. A total of 3 lakh people will receive the vaccination shots on the first day. Over 3,000 sites across all states and UTs will be virtually connected during the launch. About 100 beneficiaries will be vaccinated at each site on an inaugural day.
The first to get the shots will be 30 million health workers and other frontline workers, followed by about 270 million people who are above 50 years of age. The government aims to vaccinate 300 million high-risk people over the next few months. The Union Health Ministry has advised states not to organise "unreasonable numbers of vaccination per site per day".
Politics over vaccine has heated up in poll-bound Bengal with BJP leader Amit Malviya asking Bengal chief minister if appeasement was the reason for her silence after "a TMC minister held up trucks carrying vaccines and an MP likened the saffron party to coronavirus".
Co-WIN platform, the Government of India’s app designed to enable citizens to self-register for the Covid-19 vaccination process, initially will be accessible to healthcare workers alone and will be open to usage for the general public within a month. Besides the COVID warriors, the app will effectively be used by central and state governments to implement the inoculation drive.
The PMO said on Thursday, "PM Modi will launch pan India rollout of Covid-19 vaccination drive on Jan 16 at 10:30 am via video conferencing. Total 3006 session sites across all States/UTs to be virtually connected during the launch. Around 100 beneficiaries to be vaccinated at each session site on Jan 16."
As India prepares for a nationwide vaccination drive on Saturday, reports suggest that a specially equipped aircraft from Brazil is expected to land in Mumbai over the weekend to collect 2 million doses of the vaccine. This will mark the first such export from the country.
The government has now disapproved the authorisation of Bharat Biotech's Covid vaccine to people below 18 years of age whereas earlier, it was approved for children above the age of 12 years by the Drugs Controller General of India.
Background
The Union Health Ministry on Thursday, confirmed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be launching India’s mass inoculation drive against the Covid-19 pandemic on January 16. "The massive countrywide Covid-19 vaccination drive will be rolled out by Prime Minister from January 16. This would be the world's largest immunisation exercise," the Health Ministry said. As part of the launch, PM Modi will be interacting with some of the beneficiaries who will get the vaccine shots on Saturday, through videoconferencing.
The government has now disapproved the authorisation of Bharat Biotech's Covid vaccine to people below 18 years of age whereas earlier, it was approved for children above the age of 12 years by the Drugs Controller General of India. A letter from the office of additional secretary at the union health ministry carrying a comparative factsheet for the two Covid vaccines approved for emergency authorisation revealed that the government has "not recommended" their authorisation to people below 18 years of age.
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