India had on January 16 launched the world’s largest vaccination drive against the Covid-19 pandemic, which has claimed more than a million lives, sunk economies, shuttered businesses, and shattered daily life the world over. It’s been over a month, and the inoculation drive seems to be moving on full throttle.
Here are all your questions answered about India’s vaccine drive:
How many people have been vaccinated till now?
The cumulative number of Covid-19 vaccine doses administered to healthcare and frontline workers in the country has crossed 1.23 crore around a month after the countrywide inoculation programme, the Health Ministry said on Wednesday.
A total of 1,23,66,633 vaccine doses have been given through 2,63,224 sessions, as per the provisional report till 6 pm. These include 65,24,726 health care workers who have taken the 1st dose and 14,81,754 healthcare workers who have taken the 2nd dose, along with 43,60,153 frontline workers who took the first dose.
When will people get the second dose of the vaccine?
The second dose of Covid-19 vaccines is already being administered to healthcare workers from February 13. According to health ministry, 11,15,542 HCWs have taken the second dose as of Monday (February 22).
The government in a press release had said the second vaccine dose on February 13 will be given to those who took the first shot on Day 1 of the drive on January 16. It added that there was room for improvement in the number of average vaccinations per session.
When will others get the vaccine?
Union Minister Prakash Javadekar said that vaccine will be available for people above 60 years of age and those above 45 years of age with comorbidities from March 1 adding that the jabs will be delivered free of cost at government centres.
“From March 1, people above 60 years of age and those above 45 years of age with comorbidities will be vaccinated at 10,000 govt and over 20,000 private vaccination centres. The vaccine will be given free of cost at govt centres,” Union Minister Prakash Javadekar said.
“Those who want to get vaccinated from private hospitals will have to pay. The amount they would need to pay will be decided by the health ministry within 3-4 days as they are in discussion with manufacturers and hospitals,” he added.
What about vaccine side-effects?
Harsh Vardhan on Friday also said that a total of 7,580 adverse events following immunisation (AEFI), which translates to 0.2 per cent cases, have been reported out of total vaccinations till January 31. Responding to a question on the adverse side-effects of COVID-19 vaccines, Vardhan said 12 deaths i.e. 0.000319 per cent fatalities cases out of the total number vaccinated till January 31 (not causally related to vaccination presently) have also been reported.
“These deaths were investigated and examined by the experts and as per current evidence none of these deaths have a causal relationship with COVID-19 vaccination,” he said in a written reply. As far as AEFIs are concerned, he said most of these are minor AEFIs like anxiety, vertigo, giddiness, dizziness, fever, pain, rashes, and headache, which are self-limiting and all people have recovered, Vardhan said.
Do you need to submit Aadhar card details for Co-Win registration?
Registration on the Co-WIN portal does not require a user to submit Aadhaar card details, Union Minister of State for Health Ashwini Choubey has said. Providing details about the Co-WIN portal, which has been created along with the CoWin mobile app to streamline the COVID-19 vaccination drive in India, he said it has been developed by the Ministry of Health, government of India with the support from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), India Office.
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