Bengaluru, Jan 8 (UNI) Karnataka State is likely to get 13,90,000 vials of vaccine for Covid-19 in a couple of days, Minister for Health Dr K Sudhakar said on Friday.
Speaking to newsmen after visiting one of the PHC where the dry run second phase was in progress in the city on Friday, he said that the state is expected to receive 13,90,000 vials of vaccine against COVID-19 in a day or two. “The big good news for Karnataka is that I have received information from the Union Health Ministry that tomorrow or the day after probably we will be receiving 13,90,000 vials of vaccine for the state. It”s a big happy news for all of us,” he added.
He said that the vaccination will be first administered to health care workers. “We have registered 6.30 lakh healthcare workers in the State. Those who are left out, may be in some medical or dental colleges, we have requested them to register. Health workers will be followed by those with comorbidities, those above 60 years and those in other departments like Police and Revenue working against the pandemic.”
COVID-19 vaccination dry run was held at 263 PHCs across the State including in 24 district hospitals, 20 medical colleges, 43 taluk hospitals, 31 community health centres, 87 primary health centres, 30 urban primary health centres and 28 private hospitals.
The first round of the dry run, an exercise for end- to-end testing of COVID-19 vaccination process was held in in five districts of Karnataka- Bengaluru (including BBMP), Belagavi, Kalburgi, Mysore and Shivamogga- on December 2 as per the government of India guidelines.