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| Dry Run Of COVID-19 |
Synopsis: India has started dry run of Covid Vacine i.e. on 4 & 8 January
Why it is necessary ?
Just like any preparation drills, dry run is a dummy process that helps the government assess how ready we are for the COVID-19 immunization at the national level.
It tests the planned operations including entry of necessary data in Co-WIN, which is an online platform for monitoring the delivery of COVID-19 vaccine, deployment of team members, and testing recipient.
• It also included mock drills of session sites, testing of beneficiaries, checking cold storage, transportation arrangements handling crowd at the immunization site, and ensuring physical distancing.
• Beneficiaries are given dummy vaccines at different locations & they are administered for the next 30 minutes to address any adverse event.
• A report will be prepared for review and submitted to MoHFW.
Basically,there are two covid vaccine available in India viz. Covidshield (Astrazenaca and Oxford University, london) , covacine(Hyderabad based bharat biotech and Indian council of medical research) and both are approved for vaccination by our government.
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