Frontline workers in Telangana receive COVID-19 vaccine

There are a lot of hopes on COVID-19 vaccine which is all set to make a revolution in the field of health. In the current health scenario, this vaccine is the most needed.

The final dry run, before the actual roll out COVID vaccine was taken up by almost all the major government hospitals in the city and private ones as well, and this began on Friday in Telangana. Many of the government hospitals in Telangana have received the vaccines and frontline workers have already got a dose. The second phase of the countrywide COVID vaccination dry run was aimed to ensure efficient planning and management for the delivery of the vaccine across all the districts in the state.

So far, based on the information available with the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MOHFW), till January 6, the data of 78.62 lakh health care workers has been registered on Co-WIN software while the balance data will be uploaded by States and UTs.

The Ministry of Finance, Union Government has also approved Rs 480 crore operational costs of Covid-19 vaccination received from the Ministry of Finance.