1.84L Covid vaccines arrive in Vidarbha

Nagpur: 1.84 lakh Covid-19 vaccines arrived in Vidarbha on Wednesday and Thursday. The number of vaccines arrived are more than the number of health care workers registered for the vaccination programme.
After 10 months of pandemic, vaccination of health care workers will begin in 71 centres from 9am on January 16 in 11 districts of Vidarbha. From January 18, vaccination will start at more centres.
Vaccines of five districts of Amravati division — Amravati, Akola, Buldhana, Washim and Yavatmal — arrived late Wednesday evening in Akola and for six districts of Nagpur division — Nagpur, Chandrapur, Wardha, Gondia, Gadchiroli and Bhandara — at 2.30am on Thursday.Barring Wardha, all other districts picked up their allotted vaccines by 4.30am from Mata Kacheri where the office of deputy director of health services is located.
In Nagpur city, vaccination will commence at five centres on January 16 and at all 60 centres from January 18.
The target is to vaccinate 100 health care workers at each centre.
1.56 lakh health care workers are registered in 11 districts of Vidarbha for phase-I of vaccination programme. Frontline workers will be administered vaccine in the second phase followed by people above 50 years age and then below 50 years age with comorbidities.