This story is from January 21, 2021

Telangana: 2,686 health workers take Covid-19 vaccine in Suryapet

Telangana: 2,686 health workers take Covid-19 vaccine in Suryapet
Healthcare workers at NIMS being administered the Covid-19 vaccine on Thursday
HYDERABAD: With Covid-19 vaccination continuing in the first phase, out of the total health workers who opted to make use of the vaccination and registered themselves, some chose not to take it on Thursday.
In Suryapet district, 1,279 health workers had registered in 22 centres to take the vaccine but only 1,058 of them took the vaccine.
District medical and health officer K Harshavardhan went around the primary health centres where the vaccination was being done and urged health workers to make use of the facility of vaccination.
So far since the vaccination programme began on January 16, as many as 2,686 health workers took the vaccine.
There have been no instances of any of those who had got vaccinated developing any side-effects.
Most of those who took the vaccine in Suryapet were at Thungathurthy (180) followed by Kodad (156) and Chivvelam (96).
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Sushil Rao is Editor-Special Reports, at The Times of India, Hyderabad. He began his journalism career at the age of 20 in 1988. He is a gold medalist in journalism from the Department of Communication and Journalism, Arts College, Osmania University, Hyderabad from where he did his post-graduation from. He has been with The Times of India’s Hyderabad edition since its launch in 2000. He has also done an introductory course in film studies from the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, and also from the Central University of Kerala equipping himself with the knowledge of filmmaking for film criticism. He has authored four books. In his career spanning 34 years, he has worked for five newspapers and has also done television reporting. He was also a web journalist during internet’s infancy in the mid 1990s in India. He covers defence, politics, diaspora, innovation, administration, the film industry, Hyderabad city and Telangana state, and human interest stories. He is also a podcaster, blogger, does video reporting and makes documentaries.

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