20,000 Covishield doses arrive in Thiruvananthapuram
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The district vaccine retailer obtained 20,000 Covishield doses late Tuesday, enabling well being authorities to maintain the vaccination drive for extra days.
However, the vaccination programme might be confined to twenty-eight public well being establishments alone on Wednesday. Three of those will present Covaxin doses. The relaxation are prone to obtain the remaining inventory of practically 5,000 doses. Of these, over 2,000 might be launched for the 5 vaccination classes that might be held on the Jimmy George indoor stadium.
The new batch, which might be distributed on Thursday, might be equipped by way of all the 100-odd public well being establishments, together with major and neighborhood well being centres in the district. While precedence might be ensured for presidency hospitals, non-public establishments are unlikely to obtain allocation in the brand new batch. The dwindling vaccine inventory in the non-public sector has started to disrupt the continuing drive.
Normalcy restored
Following a day marked by chaos, the vaccine provide at Jimmy George indoor stadium was performed in a easy method on Tuesday with the authorities adopting a strict coverage in time-slot administration. Vaccine seekers had been granted entry on the idea of their allotted time alone.
Special tahsildar and vaccination camp nodal officer N. Balasubramanian stated some folks, who turned up a lot forward of their slots, had been directed to attend exterior the stadium and permitted entry solely near their allotted time. Besides, a pandal that was erected on the parking space prevented folks from standing in the solar.
While the centre was supposed to produce 2,000 doses, as many as 2,335 had been administered the vaccine till 5.30 p.m. there. Similar to what had transpired the day before today, a number of folks managed to safe appointments through the Aarogya Setu software. The parallel reserving facility, in addition to the Co-WIN portal, has posed difficulties for well being officers in allocating doses for centres beforehand.
While 400 had booked for vaccination at General Hospital by way of the Co-WIN portal, practically 30 gained appointments by way of Aarogya Setu. The overbooking additionally led to the automated cancellation of bookings for a number of folks early in the day.
In all, a complete of 15,189 folks obtained vaccination on the day.
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