Vaccine drive held smoothly: Govt

January 17, 2021 09:13

There were no serious side effects on the first day of the vaccination drive against the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), the Union health ministry said, as India launched the worlds largest immunisation exercise that aims to vaccinate 30 million health care and frontline workers in the first phase.

However, as opposed to the target of vaccinating about 300,000 people on the first day, according to the health ministrys data, 191,181 health care workers were vaccinated at 3,351 centres. There were 16,755 personnel involved in the vaccination programme. Additionally, 3,429 people were vaccinated in defence institutions.

Some glitches were observed in the functioning of the Co-WIN app, the digital platform deployed for the drive, which the ministry said were resolved later. Since this was the first day of the vaccination drive and it was our first real-time experience, there were observed some minor glitches that were resolved immediately, said Manohar Agnani, additional secretary, health ministry, who is also the nodal officer at the ministry for vaccine delivery.

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