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PROCESS FOR VACCINATION

01 A five-member team called as Vaccinator
Officers will be formed for vaccination

The first Vaccinator Officer 96.19 %
will be stationed at the
entry point and his task will RECOVERY
RATE
be to check 1.45%
05
One session will 200 people will be Co-WIN App match details from the 02 Total test so far DEATH RATE
be held in a day in
the documents
which around 100-
17,56,35,761
vaccinated
Two yards Distance
Recovered Patients- 99,46,867

Second officer will
Active cases Total patients Total deaths
2,43,953 1,03,41,416 1,50,858
managing the crowd
at the centre
Data Up to January 4; Source: Health Ministry
FREE VACCINATION FOR 3 CRORE PEOPLE
The other two officers will 04 be tasked with monitoring the patient for 30 minutes after the vaccination and AM to 5 PM 03 Vaccine will be administered from 9 l An end-to-end mock drill on the vaccine
administration was conducted on January
2, 2021
l This dry run was aimed at testing the laid
out mechanisms for COVID-19 vaccination
roll out in the health system and to assess
operational feasibility
REGISTRATION FOR VACCINATION l The activities starting from beneficiary
data upload, session site allocation and
l Registration for the vaccination is likely to take place
through the Co-WIN App. It can be uploaded by micro planning, vaccine allocation, session
site management with test beneficiaries,
the Central Ministry, State Governments or District
Administration reporting mechanism etc. were covered in
this one-day dry run
l If someone is registering on his/her own then they will
have to submit any 1 of the 15 documents listed l Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said,
“Just like we prepare during elections, the
l These documents include Aadhar Card, Driving same way we need to train each member
License, Health Insurance, Smart Card issued by
of all medical teams responsibly.”
the Central Labour Ministry, MNREGA Job Card,
l One Crore health workers and two Crore
Pan Card, Bank Passbook, Passport, Post Office
frontline workers to be vaccinated free of
Passbook, Pension Papers, Identity Card issued by cost
the office, Voter ID Card etc l Subject Expert Committee grants
l State Governments were given important instructions permission for restricted emergency use
regarding vaccination process. State level and District of vaccine to Serum Institute and Bharat
level committees have already held meetings for this Biotech for their vaccines COVAXINTM
purpose and Covishield, respectively

It is the result of the Government’s Government’s preparedness can also be
preparedness pre- and post-lockdown that gauged from the fact that it has already
while the COVID-19 situation around the issued necessary instructions for the disposal
world is becoming worrisome, India is seeing of syringes and other medical waste after the
a steady and continuous decline. The Central vaccination drive.
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