Vaccination drive in Bardhaman suspended after 4 AEFI instances

The Covid-19 vaccination drive was on Thursday suspeded within the Bardhaman-Durgapur belt after 4 individuals reported antagonistic occasion following immunisation (AEFI).
While no well being officers confirmed the incident, sources mentioned the 4 individuals had been below commentary at a hospital in Durgapur.
Sources mentioned considered one of them had hypertension and the remaining had no main well being issues. The state Health Department is but to verify the explanation behind their sickness and if there was any co-relation with the vaccination. According to Health Department sources, although the vaccination drive within the state is carried out on Mondays, Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays, some centres are administering the vaccine on different days too.

On Wednesday, complete 2,000 frontline staff had been vaccinated towards Tuesday’s 13,693. Sources mentioned the Centre’s CoWIN software was working sluggish and encountered some glitches.
“The AEFI rate is still less than one in thousand, which is normally expected and prove that the surveillance system is functioning well, and no major side effects were noticed after more than 43,000 doses. This is a huge success and will help us in confidence building… We are likely to receive more vaccine doses,” mentioned an official.
Meanwwhile, West Bengal on Thursday reported 416 coronavirus instances and and 9 deaths attributed to the virus. With these, the entire caseload reached 5,66,898 and the toll 10,089. As many as 517 Covid sufferers had been discharged within the final 24 hours, taking the entire to five,50,244. The introduced down energetic instances to six,565 and improved the restoration charge to 97.06 per cent. Total 28,293 samples had been examined within the final 24 hours, taking the cumulative determine to 77,51,669