PM Modi to launch Covid-19 vaccination drive on January 16

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch the rollout of India’s Covid-19 vaccination programme on January 16, the Union Health Ministry mentioned on Thursday. He is more likely to work together through video hyperlink with some healthcare employees from throughout the nation who will probably be receiving the pictures on the primary day, in accordance with sources.
Modi can also be more likely to launch the Co-WIN (Covid Vaccine Intelligence Network) App, a digital platform created for real-time monitoring of Covid-19 vaccine supply and distribution, they mentioned.
A restricted variety of websites out of the two,934 inoculation websites have been shortlisted from the place the beneficiaries can work together with the prime minister and the authorities in these centres have been requested to make provisions for IT infrastructure for offering a two-way interactive communication facility to allow it to hyperlink and work together with the nationwide launch web site by a video hyperlink, they mentioned.
Officials at New Delhi’s AIIMS and Safdarjung hospitals, that are among the many shortlisted services, mentioned they’re “ready for a two-way communication”.
Around three lakh healthcare employees will get vaccine pictures at 2,934 websites throughout the nation on the primary day of the huge nationwide Covid-19 vaccination drive, a senior official mentioned.
Each vaccination session will cater to a most of 100 beneficiaries.
According to the rules issued to the shortlisted vaccination centres, healthcare employees (these registered in Co-WIN to be vaccinated) on the launch shall embrace not solely medical doctors, nurses but additionally nursing orderlies, safai karamcharis, ambulance drivers, and can be from a blended age group, together with above 50 years.
The full preliminary procurement of 1.65 crore doses of Covid-19 vaccines – Covishield and Covaxin– has been allotted to all states and UTs in proportion to their healthcare employees database.
“Therefore, there is no question of discrimination against any State in allocation of vaccination doses. This is the initial lot of supply of vaccine doses and would be continuously replenished in the weeks to come. Therefore, any apprehension being expressed on account of deficient supply is totally baseless and unfounded,” the ministry mentioned on Thursday.

States have been suggested to arrange vaccination periods taking into consideration 10 per cent reserve/wastage doses and a mean of 100 vaccinations per session per day.
Therefore, any undue haste on the elements of the states to arrange unreasonable numbers of vaccination per web site per day is just not suggested, the ministry had mentioned on Wednesday.
The states and UTs have additionally been suggested to extend the variety of vaccination session websites that may be operational daily in a progressive method because the vaccination course of stabilizes and strikes ahead.

According to the federal government, the pictures will probably be supplied first to an estimated one crore healthcare employees, and round two crore frontline employees, after which to individuals above 50 years of age, adopted by individuals youthful than 50 years of age with related comorbidities.
Cost of vaccination of healthcare and frontline employees will probably be borne by the central authorities.