COVID-19 vaccination | 71% covered in Telangana on day 3
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On the third day of COVID-19 vaccination drive, a complete of 51,997 healthcare employees in Telangana got the jab on Tuesday. Of them, 51 developed Adverse Effect Following Immunisation (AEFI), together with three who required hospitalisation. Their situation was stated to be secure.
Director of Public Health G. Srinivasa Rao stated no severe or extreme case of AEFI was reported.
This is the very best variety of beneficiaries to be immunised and the utmost variety of AEFI instances reported in a day. The variety of vaccine recipients per session web site is being elevated regularly.
If the proportion of focused beneficiaries is taken into account, it’s the lowest since Saturday or the primary day of the vaccine drive.
That day, 92.2% of the focused beneficiaries — 3,962 of 4,296 healthcare employees — had been vaccinated. The quantity fell to 82% on Monday, and 71% on Tuesday.
Altogether, on the three days, 69,625 out of the 94,719 focused healthcare employees had been administered the vaccine, which total works out to 74%. It clearly signifies that there’s nonetheless some hesitation among the many beneficiaries to get inoculated.
As the session websites elevated, the variety of beneficiaries too has elevated. One of the websites the place vaccination started on Tuesday was Osmania Medical College. Vice-principal of the faculty R.L. Lakshman stated, presently, there are 449 beneficiaries, which embrace college and put up graduate college students. Of these, 100 had been vaccinated on Tuesday.
The COVID-19 vaccination drive is carried out solely on 4 days of the week — Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.
3.48L extra doses
The State Health division obtained 3,48,500 extra doses of Covishield on Tuesday.
This is in addition to the 3.64 lakh doses of Covishield and 20,000 doses of Covaxin already obtained.
Dr Srinivasa Rao stated all of the doses could be sufficient to vaccinate healthcare employees in authorities and personal well being centres. Each beneficiary wants two doses of a vaccine with a niche of 28 days in between. The healthcare employees and frontline employees from different departments, comparable to municipality and police, are the precedence teams.
Thereafter, individuals above 50 years, and people underneath the age of fifty with co-morbidities comparable to diabetes and hypertension could be covered.
The senior well being official knowledgeable that individuals above 50 years may need their flip in direction of the tip of February or in March.
