Nationwide Covid vaccine dry run again tomorrow

Nationwide Covid vaccine dry run again tomorrow
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Nationwide Covid vaccine dry run again tomorrow

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Ahead of the roll-out of coronavirus vaccine in few days, another dry-run will be conducted across the country on January 8

New Delhi: Ahead of the roll-out of coronavirus vaccine in few days, another dry-run will be conducted across the country on January 8.

On January 2, almost all states and Union Territory conducted dry run at 285 session sites spread across 125 districts to assess ability and readiness of authorities to administer shots to hundreds of millions of people, including many in remote corners of the country.

It was conducted to test the end-to-end planned operations and the mechanism that has been set up to ensure smooth conduct of the Covid-19 vaccination.

On December 28 and 29, the first dry run was conducted in Krishna district of Andhra Pradesh, Rajkot and Gandhinagar district of Gujarat, Ludhiana and Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar of Punjab and Sonitpur and Nalbari districts of Assam.

The Central government plans to vaccinate nearly 30 crore people in the first phase of drive.

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