Maharashtra: COVID-19 vaccine dry run carried out in four districts

MUMBAI: A dry run to assess the readiness of the mechanism laid out for the COVID-19 immunisation drive, which is expected to begin soon, was conducted on Saturday in four districts of Maharashtra.

The exercise was conducted at identified health centres in Nagpur, Jalna, Pune and Nandurbar districts.

Specific teams were formed for various tasks by the district administrations and activities like uploading of dummy beneficiary data, session site creation, vaccine allocation, communicating vaccination details to beneficiaries and vaccinators, and beneficiary mobilisation etc are being carried out.

Speaking to reporters in his home district Jalna, Maharashtra Health Minister Rajesh Tope said the state is prepared to undertake actual COVID-19 vaccine inoculation exercise in the coming days.

“The dry run is being conducted in select cities, towns and villages to check the preparedness of system for actual vaccination exercise,” he said.

Tope said the selection of beneficiaries for the…

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