This story is from January 22, 2021

Registration of frontline workers closes in 4 days, 1.13L names in division so far

Registration of frontline workers closes in 4 days, 1.13L names in division so far
Pune: The registration for frontline workers, who are part of phase 2 of Covid vaccinations, is set to close by January 25 midnight. Pune division — comprising Pune, Satara, Solapur, Sangli and Kolhapur districts — has so far registered 1.13 lakh names on the CoWIN app.
Division officials said they are currently waiting for employee data from the revenue department.

Key frontline workers are next in line for Covid inoculations after patient-facing healthcare staffers who are currently being vaccinated as part of Phase 1. Frontline personnel include members of police units, armed forces, disaster management teams and municipal bodies.
Deputy director of health services, Pune region, Sanjay Deshmukh confirmed the last date for uploading details of frontline workers is January 25. Pune district currently has the highest number of frontline workers with just over 74,000 names. “The numbers can go up,” Deshmukh said.
Officials said they are expecting an extension to the deadline, considering that data from the entire revenue department is yet to be uploaded. It’s also still unclear when phase 2 is expected to start as dates have not yet been announced by central or state authorities. But it will only commence once vaccination of enroled health workers is completed. The Centre has said the process may not be sequential, but health department officials here said that decision depends on availability of doses.
The state has received its full allocation of Covishield doses required to vaccinate its eight lakh healthcare workers. It had first received 9.63 lakh Covishield doses and 20,000 Covaxin doses.
In the state, Pune and Mumbai are likely to have the most frontline workers. The districts of Nashik and Nagpur look set to follow.
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