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VIRUS-KEJRIWAL-VACCINE
Delhi govt all set to receive, store, give vaccine to priority category
persons in city: Kejriwal
NEW DELHI, Dec 24, 2020 (BSS/PTI) – The Delhi government is fully prepared
to receive, store and give COVID-19 vaccine to priority category persons in
the city in the first phase of vaccination, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal
said on Thursday.
He said his government is all set to start the vaccination drive as soon as
it gets the vaccine from the Centre, and registration is underway for people
in three priority categories who will receive it first.
“There are a total of 51 lakh priority category persons in Delhi — three
lakh health workers, six lakh frontline workers, and 42 lakh of those aged
above 50 and those below 50 but having co-morbidities,” the chief minister
said at a virtual press briefing.
Each person will be given two doses, and a total of 1.02 crore doses will
be required in the first phase of vaccination in Delhi, he said.
Currently, there is storage capacity for 74 lakh doses, and it will be
scaled up to 1.15 crore within a week, Kejriwal said.
Each person in priority categories is being registered to receive the
vaccine. They will be informed through SMS and other means whenever their
turn for vaccination arrives, the chief minister said.
The necessary staff, officials and health workers have also been
identified and trained for the vaccination drive. The sites where vaccination
will be carried out is also being readied, he said.
The COVID-19 situation in Delhi has improved significantly in the past few
days, but all eyes are set on when the vaccine will be available and people
will get rid of the virus, Kejriwal added.
BSS/PTI/ARS/1907 hrs