Covid vaccination sites in Hyderabad to be increased to 42

HYDERABAD: The Covid-19 vaccination drive will see 50 beneficiaries at each centre on Monday, a slight increase from 30 on the launch day. The number of centres in the state will be increased to 324 on Monday and the drive will cover nearly 16,200 beneficiaries.
While the state health department initially announced that 100 beneficiaries will be vaccinated at each centre, the target had to be revised due to reluctance among beneficiaries as per insiders.
Meanwhile, as per official details, the number of vaccine session sites in Hyderabad will be more than doubled from 14 on the launch day to 42 on Monday, with 28 new centres. Officials want to go slow and increase the numbers of centres as they learn on the way and so that errors that took place on the first day can be avoided.
“Although we have the capacity to vaccinate nearly two lakh people per day, we want to go slow on the process. With the first few rounds seeing no complications and as the beneficiaries get back to work a day after taking the vaccine, more beneficiaries will get convinced about the safety of the vaccine,” said a senior official from the state health department.
Dr G Srinivasa Rao, director of public health, Telangana, said in an official statement on Sunday that arrangements have been made to vaccinate beneficiaries at 324 centers in the state on the second day of the vaccination programme. In addition to the 140 centers where the vaccine was administered on the launch day, another 184 centers were added.
On Saturday, when the vaccination programme was launched in the state, a total of 3,962 beneficiaries including sanitation workers and healthcare workers were vaccinated across 140 centres in the state.
The health status of the 11 beneficiaries who had reported mild side effects was enquired over phone, said the official, and all the 11 are doing fine. “They will be monitored for another two to three days,” added Dr Rao.