Covid-19 vaccination drive in Maharashtra suspended until Jan 18 resulting from points with Co-WIN app

Image Source : PTI A medic administers the primary dose of Covishield vaccine to Madhura Patil within the presence of Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, after the digital launch of COVID-19 vaccination drive by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, at BKC vaccination unit in Mumbai.
The COVID-19 vaccination drive has been briefly suspended until January 18 in the whole state of Maharashtra resulting from technical points with Co-WIN software, knowledgeable the State Health Department.

Earlier within the day, Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray flagged off the much-anticipated Coronavirus vaccination drive, terming it as “a revolutionary step”, at the same time as 1000’s of eligible folks queued up for his or her life-saver jab throughout the state.

Ex-Shiv Sena Health Minister Dr. Deepak Sawant and a girl medico Dr. Madhura Patil have been among the many first to be given their maiden doses on the RN Cooper Hospital, Vile Parle and the Bandra Kurla Complex subject hospital, respectively, each of their capability as medical frontline employees.

“With this, we have taken a revolutionary step today… During the Covid-19 pandemic, the health workers cooperated with us in a big way. Even after the vaccination, all Covid-19 precautions must continue to be observed,” Thackeray urged.

An anxious Dr. Patil took the primary Covishield vaccine dose amid an enormous media glare with Thackeray, Mayor Kishori Pednekar, BMC Commissioner I. S. Chahal, high ministers, civic and medical officers and different invitees standing and watching the method.

As a nurse injected the vaccine, with out grimacing, Dr. Patil managed a smile behind her masked face and even displayed a ‘thumbs up’ signal.

The drive in Maharashtra – the worst-hit by the Covid-19 pandemic with most deaths and infections – began enthusiastically shortly after Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the nationwide vaccination drive in New Delhi.

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“The day is double auspicious for the state as it mark the 340th anniversary of the Coronation of Chhatrapati Sambhajiraje Bhosale Maharaj, the second ruler of the Maratha Empire, (Jan. 16, 1681), at Raigad,” mentioned a authorities official, declining to be recognized.

Exactly 10 months in the past on March 17, 2020, Covid-19 claimed its first sufferer, a 64-year previous man on the BMC’s Kasturba Hospital, and since then, the state has recorded 50,336 deaths and 19,84,768 instances until date – each highest within the nation.

From in the present day, the life-save injections are being administered at 285 centres in all of the 36 districts throughout the state, together with 9 centres in Mumbai the place a mean of 4,000 shall be vaccinated each day, between 9am-5 pm.

Besides Thackeray in Mumbai, different ministers, collectors and district well being officers launched the vaccination drives in numerous elements of the state, eliciting aid and optimism after the 10-month lengthy tensions among the many plenty.

“We have received 139,400 doses of Covishield Vaccine from the Serum Institute of India and so far around 1.30 lakh people have registered,” Pednekar knowledgeable.

Chahal mentioned that as per the Centre’s pointers, the vaccination drive can be performed in three phases with the frontline employees, adopted by sanitation and different well being employees, police and people above 50 years in the past, and lastly all beneath 50 years with co-morbidities, however folks under age of 18 haven’t been included in the intervening time.

For the primary two phases, folks must register by means of the CoWin digital platform, officers mentioned.

Principal Secretary (Health) Dr. Pradeep Vyas mentioned that course of begins when the supposed individual will get an in depth SMS on the cell indicating the date, time, venue for the vaccination the following day.

The first vaccination drives have been taken up at 9 BMC hospitals and the BKC Covid Facilitation Centre, which took up the vaccination for round 4,000 folks in the course of the day. Subsequently, one other 63 centres shall be opened which can vaccinate greater than 50,000 folks each day, mentioned a BMC well being official.

Over the following few days, greater than 28,500 well being employees and the precedence teams shall be administered the dose in any respect the centres within the state, as per the emergency approval utilization cleared by the Centre.

This week, the state obtained 963,000 doses of Covishield and one other 20,000 vials of the Covaxin which have been despatched all around the state.

Covaxin is being administered at 6 centres within the state together with medical schools in Mumbai, Nagpur, Aurangabad and Solapur, and district hospitals in Pune and Amravati.

Congress State Spokesperson Sachin Sawant reiterated that the vaccination ought to be given free to all of the folks as assured by the PM for the folks of Bihar in the course of the meeting elections there in Nov.

In Mumbai, the BMC hopes to vaccinate greater than 3.50 million residents within the subsequent few months for which it has educated greater than 7,000 folks and is within the course of of coaching 10,000 extra.

(With inputs from IANS)

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