The Bihar health department will conduct dry runs on February 27 and 28 for the third phase of the COVID vaccination announcement made by the Centre on Wednesday.

"From March 1, people above 60 years of age and those above 45 years of age with comorbidities will be vaccinated at 10,000 government and over 20,000 private vaccination centres. The vaccine will be free at the government centres," Union health minister Prakash Javadekar said while making the announcement on Wednesday.

State health department principal secretary Pratyaya Amrit said they have geared up for the coming phase of vaccination and they will first carry out a dry run to see how many session sites and vaccinators are required for the implementation of the third phase vaccination.

Asked about the date for Bihar, Amrit said, “Announcement made by the central government is applicable for all states.” He further said all public health facilities from tertiary level medical colleges to sub-centres are being made ready for this drive.

Currently, the second dose of vaccination for healthcare workers and the first dose of vaccination for frontline workers are being given across the state.

As per data shared by the State Health Society, 6,689 frontline workers took their vaccine shots on Wednesday. So far, a total of 1,40,787 of them have taken the jab, and they account for 51.6% of the total beneficiaries falling in the category of frontline workers. The health department has targeted to complete their vaccination by Monday.

Apart from the frontline workers, 221 healthcare workers took their first dose, and 897 took the second dose of Covid-19 vaccine 327 session sites created on Wednesday. A total of 3,99,228 healthcare workers have got the first dose of vaccine since the vaccination started on January 16 across the state, and a total of 60,418 of them have got their second dose.

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