Rajasthan state government had received 1,77,340 Covaxin doses and another 1,31,260 doses of Covishield last week for second phase of vaccination. Providing momentum to COVID inoculation drive, the state will receive around 2.5 lakh more doses of Covishield for vaccination of frontline workers and healthcare workers.
Rajasthan state government had received 1,77,340 Covaxin doses and another 1,31,260 doses of Covishield last week for second phase of vaccination. Providing momentum to COVID inoculation drive, the state will receive around 2.5 lakh more doses of Covishield for vaccination of frontline workers and healthcare workers.
Another 2.5 lakh doses will help the health department in getting the frontline workers vaccinated against COVID-19. Also, the second dose of vaccination for healthcare workers will be administered from February 13. Also, there are a lot of healthcare workers who have not been vaccinated. The health department will organise vaccination sites for giving shots to left-out healthcare workers.
“The left-out healthcare workers will get the first COVID-19 vaccine on February 11,” said Dr Narrottam Sharma, chief medical health officer (Jaipur-I).
In the second phase of COVID-19 vaccination drive, the health department is targeting to vaccinate 22,520 revenue department employees, 55,362 employees of local bodies, 1,61,236 personnel of police and armed forces.
In this way, 2,39,118 frontline workers are registered in Co-Win App for vaccination in second phase.
“On Monday, the frontline workers, including police department, local bodies and revenue department officials will continue to get the COVID-19 jab,” said a health department official. Since the health department will start giving second dose of Covid-19 vaccine to healthcare workers, who have already received the first dose. The second dose of the vaccine is scheduled to start from February 13 for people who were vaccinated on January 16.
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