As per reports, two medical centres, the civic-run Cooper Hospital in Juhu and the district hospital in Jalna have been selected for the vaccination drive for the healthcare workers in view of COVID-19.
The vaccination drive will reportedly take place on January 16. This comes after Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a high-level meeting with senior officials to review the situation in the country with regards to the pandemic in order to finalize the roll-out details. According to sources, health workers and frontline workers will be vaccinated first. Moreover, co-morbid people above 50 years of age and under 50 years of age will be vaccinated then, the number of which is approximately 27 crores.
In addition, as a part of the vaccination drive, two vaccines- Covishield and Covaxin – will be given to people. Developed by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca, the Covishield vaccine is being produced by Pune-based Serum Institute of India. The second vaccine named Covaxin is developed, researched and manufactured by Bharat Biotech.
Earlier, a dry run of the COVID-19 vaccination process was held at three sites each in four districts of Maharashtra namely Pune, Nagpur, Jalna and Nandurbar. This was supervised by several officers including Principal Health Secretary Dr Pradeep Vyas.
Meanwhile, on Sunday, January 10, Maharashtra reported 3,558 fresh cases of the coronavirus taking the COVID-19 tally in the state to 19,69,114. On the other hand, 2,302 patients were discharged today whereas the cumulative recoveries have reached 18,63,702. The recovery rate in the state is 94.65 per cent.
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