Coronavirus Vaccine: Successful! COVID-19 vaccination dry run conducted by Modi government in these four states

In a major development, Modi government-led Union Ministry of Health & Family Welfare has confirmed that it has conducted a two-day dry run for activities entailed in Covid-19 vaccination in four states on 28th and 29th December 2020. These four states are: -

1-Assam

2-Andhra Pradesh

3-Punjab

4-Gujarat

The two-day end-to-end dry run was undertaken in Krishna district in Andhra Pradesh, Rajkot and Gandhinagar in Gujarat, Ludhiana and Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar (Nawanshahr) in Punjab and Sonitpur and Nalbari districts in Assam.

The dry run exercise is aimed at end-to-end testing of COVID-19 vaccination process and will include planning & preparations as per the Operational Guidelines; creation of facilities & users on Co-WIN application, session site creation & mapping of sites, Health Care Workers (HCW) data upload, receipt of vaccines and vaccine allocation by the district, session planning, deployment of vaccination team, logistics mobilization at session site, mock drill of conducting vaccination and reporting and review meetings at block, districts and state level.

The objective of dry run is also to undertake and confirm field implementation of IT platform Co-WIN and guide way forward prior to actual implementation.

"Backed with the experience of rolling out Universal Immunization Programme (UIP) and conducting nationwide multiple wide-range injectable vaccination campaigns such as measles-rubella (MR) and adult Japanese Encephalitis (JE) campaign, required steps are being undertaken to vaccinate priority population groups such as Health care workers, Frontline workers and people above 50 years for Covid-19," Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said in a statement.
Specific teams were formed for various tasks by the district administration and activities like uploading of dummy beneficiary’s data, session site creation, vaccine allocation, communication vaccination details to vaccinators & beneficiaries, beneficiary mobilization were carried out.