Hyderabad: Attempts are made to ensure the daily administration of Covid vaccine doses from the current 50,000 vaccines to at least 1.25 lakh in the whole government Covid Vaccination Centers (GCVCs) in Telangana.
As of Tuesday, 13,37,948 individuals, including health workers, frontline workers and those over the age of 45, including people with joint illnesses and senior citizens, received the first dose Covid vaccine in the state.
About 2.70 lakh individuals drawn from these three priority groups have their Covid vaccine doses, which means that they have received the first and second dose Covid vaccine.
To rush Covid vaccinations, the Minister of Health, Eatala Rajender, during a recent video conference with the Minister of Health, dr. Harsh Vardhan, the center requests the allocation of Covid vaccines to Telangana.
As part of efforts to improve vaccination, the state government has set targets for all district collectors. Each primary health care center must vaccinate at least 100 vaccines a day, while Areas hospitals and community hospitals must administer 200 vaccine doses. The district hospitals were given the target of administering at least 300 vaccine doses in one day.
To date, more than 9.90 lakh individuals have received the first dose Covid vaccine.
According to the vaccination report, based on the e-VIN portal, the Telangana state received 17,36,370 doses and 40,540 doses were assigned to vaccines and another 33 120 doses were set aside as buffer with Covid Vaccination Centers (CVCs) for pre-planning. The net amount of vaccine doses consumed by the state was 16,62,710 with a vaccine percentage of 3.24 percent.
Source: Telangana Today