Dry run for Covid-19 Vaccine across country on January 8

January 06, 2021 19:26

Covid-19 vaccine dry run will take place on January 8 in all districts of the country.

At a press briefing, Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan had on Tuesday announced that the government was prepared to roll out the vaccine within about a week.

A dry run was conducted on Saturday in almost all states and union territories to assess their ability and readiness to administer COVID-19 shots to hundreds of millions of people. This is aimed at equipping the entire administration and management of vaccine supply, storage and logistics, including cold chain management.

On December 28 and 29, the first dry run was conducted in Krishna district of Andhra Pradesh, Rajkot and Gandhinagar district of Gujarat, Ludhiana and Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar of Punjab and Sonitpur and Nalbari districts of Assam.

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