Vaccine dry run
Ahead of Covid-19 vaccine rollout, second dry run to be held on Friday
New Delhi/IBNS: A second dry run for the Covid-19 vaccination will be held in all states on Friday, media reports said.
The first large scale dry-run was conducted in all states and UTs on Jan 2 with an objective to test operational feasibility of the use of CO-WIN app, assess the linkage between planning and implementation as well as to identify challenges before actual implementation.
The second exercise is an attempt to check the best way to vaccinate people against Covid-19 and find out loopholes in logistics and training.
The day-long drive on Friday will again test the operational feasibility of CoWIN application in a field environment.
Short for Covid Vaccine Intelligence Network, CoWIN is a digital platform to roll out and scale up the vaccination drive.
The Centre on Tuesday informed that Covid-19 vaccines will be ready for rollout in 10 days from the emergency use authorisation date based on feedback from the dry run.
Two Covid-19 vaccine candidates-Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech's Covaxin and the Serum Institute of India's Covishield-on Sunday received the approval of the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) for emergency use in India.
The announcement by the Centre came as a relief amid growing fears over the spread of the mutant strain of coronavirus, that was first detected in the UK and is up to 70 per cent more infectious.
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