Govt has made all preparations to begin state-wide Covid vaccination: Vijay Rupani

CHIEF MINISTER Vijay Rupani stated Saturday the state authorities has “made all the preparations in Gujarat to start state-wide vaccination drive from January 16 for doctors, healthcare and frontline workers”, following an announcement by the central authorities on vaccine rollout throughout the nation.
Following a core-committee assembly to evaluate vaccine logistics, the state well being division stated Gujarat has the capability to retailer as much as one crore doses of coronavirus vaccine. For Covid-19, a complete of 17,128 vaccinators have been skilled who can be deputed throughout 27,934 websites within the state, they stated. A complete of two,236 cold-chain factors can be obtainable to retailer vaccines.
In the primary part of the vaccination, which can embody healthcare staff throughout authorities and personal sectors, greater than 4.33 lakh beneficiaries are anticipated to be administered Covid-19 vaccine pictures. In the second part of the vaccination drive, 3.47 lakh beneficiaries which embody frontline staff just like the police and defence personnel, and officers from the income and concrete growth departments, can be vaccinated.
A complete of 1.06 crore folks aged above 50 years have been listed for the third part, whereas one other 2.71 lakh folks beneath 50 years however with critical comorbidities have been listed for the fourth part, officers stated.

Dry-run of the vaccine has been carried out throughout 931 vaccination websites in 248 blocks and 26 zones of the state.
On Saturday, Gujarat reported 675 new instances of Covid-19 taking the full tally of instances to greater than 2.50 lakh. With 5 deaths, the fatality as a result of virus within the state rose to 4,340. In Ahmedabad district, as many as 129 individuals examined constructive for coronavirus, whereas two died of the an infection.