Gurgaon: Policemen manning the district vaccine store (DVS) and
CCTV cameras keeping watch, Gurgaon is getting ready to receive the first batch of Covid vaccine on Wednesday.
Haryana is set to get 2.4 lakh doses of
Covishield and 20,000 of
Covaxin on Wednesday and the vials will be distributed among 22 districts. Of them, Gurgaon will receive a total of 40,000 doses. The state government has already identified 107 sites for inoculation.
At the DVS in the city, preparations to accommodate the vaccines were in full swing on Tuesday.
The DVS, spread across a 2,000sqft area and having a capacity to store 2.5 lakh vaccines, was shifted from the premises of the
Civil Hospital last month after a decision was taken to demolish the building to make space for a new 100-bed healthcare set-up.
“The regional vaccine store of Gurgaon has been allotted an additional 73,450 syringes for the vaccination drive. The district vaccine store has already received 2,12,093 syringes. All arrangements at the store are being monitored round-the-clock,” said MP Singh, nodal officer for the vaccination programme.
The DVS, where the vials will arrive from Kurukshetra, has five rooms and a big hall. It has a walk-in cooler of 12,000 litres, eight deep freezers of 200-litre capacity, one small freezer of 90-litre capacity and six ice-lined refrigerators of 108-litre capacity. It also has 15 small
cold boxes of 5-litre capacity and 23 large boxes of 20-litre capacity to carry the vaccines.
The district has 37 cold chain points and each has one deep freezer, one small and a large cold box.
“We have all the arrangements in place. The DVS is under CCTV surveillance and we have a police team as well. We will be receiving the first batch of vaccine doses by Wednesday. The vaccine launch is scheduled for January 16. The inoculation drive will likely be conducted on January 18, 19 and 20, and 36,105
healthcare workers will be covered in the first phase,” said Dr Virender Yadav, chief medical officer of Gurgaon.
The number of healthcare workers to be inoculated in the state is expected to be around 2 lakh while the number of frontline workers is around 4.5 lakh.
The frontline workers include employees of the urban local bodies, cleaners, police and civil defence personnel, jail staff and revenue department employees. Similarly, about 58 lakh people, who are aged above 50, and about 2.2 lakh people below 50 years and suffering from other diseases, will be given the
vaccine shots.
On Tuesday, Gurgaon reported 56 new cases, taking the tally to 57,488.
The health department said 94 patients had also recovered on the day, bringing the total number of recoveries to 56,517.
One person succumbed to the
infection on Tuesday. So far, 349 people in the city have died of Covid, of whom 270 had comorbidities.
The city has a total of 750 active cases, and 683 of the patients are in home isolation. The recovery rate stands at 98%.