Vaccine guidelines: Vaccinating 100-200 people in each session per day, monitoring them for 30 minutes after administering the shots for any adverse event, and allowing only one beneficiary at a time are among the guidelines issued by the Centre for the COVID-19 inoculation drive. According to the guidelines issued to states recently, the COVID Vaccine Intelligence Network (Co-WIN) system — a digitalized platform — will be used to track enlisted beneficiaries for the vaccination and anti-coronavirus vaccines on a real-time basis.
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As per the Vaccine guidelines, the covid vaccine will be offered first to healthcare workers, frontline workers, and to persons above 50 years of age, according to operational guidelines for vaccination issued by the Union health ministry on Monday.
It will then be offered to persons younger than 50 years of age with associated co-morbidities based on the evolving pandemic situation, and finally to the remaining population based on the disease epidemiology and vaccine availability, the guidelines state.
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According to the guidelines issued to states recently, the COVID Vaccine Intelligence Network (Co-WIN) system—a digitalized platform—will be used to track enlisted beneficiaries for the vaccination and anti-coronavirus vaccines on a real-time basis.
At the vaccination site, only pre-registered beneficiaries will be vaccinated in accordance with the prioritization, and there will be no provision for on-the-spot registrations. The states have been asked, as far as possible, to allocate the vaccine from one manufacturer to a district to avoid mixing of different COVID-19 vaccines in the field. As per the ‘COVID-19 Vaccine Operational Guidelines’, all measures should be taken to avoid exposing the vaccine carrier, vaccine vials, or ice packs to direct sunlight, the document stated.
“The latest electoral roll for Lok Sabha and Legislative Assembly elections will be used to identify people aged 50 years or more. The COVID Vaccine Intelligence Network (Co-WIN) system, a digitalized platform, will be used to track the enlisted beneficiaries for vaccination on a real-time basis. At the vaccination site, only pre-registered beneficiaries will be vaccinated in accordance with the prioritization and there will be no provision for on-the-spot registration,” the guidelines said.
The government is planning to vaccinate people in sessions with each session having 100 beneficiaries. Most of the healthcare and frontline workers would be vaccinated at fixed session sites, while vaccination of other high-risk populations may require outreach session sites, and mobile sites/teams. States and UTs can identify specific days for vaccination, the Centre said.
Vaccine safety must be ensured during storage, transportation, and delivery of vaccine with sufficient deployment of police personnel so that there are no leakages in the delivery system, it said.
The states have been asked to allocate the vaccine from one manufacturer to a district to avoid mixing of different vaccines in the field.
The government also said that the inoculators should monitor vaccinated persons and immediately report to the vaccinator officer if there is any adverse reaction.
Meanwhile, covid cases continue to rise in India. The total crossed 9,897,200 with the toll touching 144,512. India’s active cases stand at 352,586, which is 3.57% of the total positive cases. As many as 27,071 new cases were added to the tally in the past 24 hours, while 30,695 cases have recovered at the same time.
