The Chief Minister of Delhi has taken stock of the preparations for the Covid-19 vaccination campaign.
New Delhi:
Delhi’s Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said today that his government had made all preparations for the Covid-19 vaccination program to be rolled out across India from Saturday and had reviewed the situation. Delhi had received 2.74 lakh of vaccines from the Center, of which 1.2 lakh will be used for health workers. Up to 2.4 lakh of those staff have been registered, in total, for coronavirus vaccination, he said.
Each individual receives two doses of the vaccine, according to the schedule.
The state government will implement vaccination in 81 centers and progressively increase it to 175, and then 1,000 centers, Kejriwal said today in a public speech. Up to 100 vaccines will be administered at each of these centers. The inoculation will take place four days a week: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. “The rest of the days will be left for other vaccinations. We don’t want the vaccination schedules for other diseases to suffer because of this,” Kejriwal said.
“We hope to receive more vaccines as per our requirement,” said the Chief Minister. “People have been suffering for a year. I hope that now, with the arrival of the vaccine, there is relief.”
The national capital reported 357 new Covid-19 cases and 11 deaths on Wednesday, the Delhi health department reported. Delhi’s Health Minister Satyendar Jain had said that up to 36 government hospitals and 53 private hospitals will each have a vaccination site.
Delhi police have made security arrangements in the city for the smooth transportation of the vaccines, authorities said on Tuesday. The first batch of Covishield vaccine arrived at Delhi’s central storage facility at Rajiv Gandhi Super Specialty Hospital on Tuesday amid high security, they said.
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