COVID DRY RUN IN HARYANA TO TAKE PLACE ON 7 JANUARY

To ensure successful implementation of the Covid-19 vaccine rollout in Haryana, a ‘dry run’ will be conducted on 7 January 2021 across the state in all districts, on six sites, including three urban and three rural sites, from 11 am to 1 pm.

Haryana Chief Secretary Vijai Vardhan was presiding over the meeting of the State Steering Committee and the State Task Force for the Covid-19 vaccine held with all the Deputy Commissioners through video conferencing here on Tuesday.

During the meeting, the Chief Secretary gave directions regarding the new strain of the Covid-19 virus found in people coming from Britain and said that tracing and testing of such people should be done on priority. Also, contact tracing of these people should be done strictly, he added.

In the meeting, Additional Chief Secretary, Health & Family Welfare Department, Rajeev Arora said that as per the scheme of Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, ‘Dry Run’ was conducted on 2 January in Panchkula district. Taking this forward, now on 7 January a ‘dry run’ will be conducted across the state, which aims to practice the entire process of Covid-19 vaccine rollout from beginning to end so that all the challenges in its implementation can be identified.

According to the Central government guidelines, Covid-19 vaccination will start this year with healthcare workers. Health workers will be vaccinated under category-1. Under category-2, frontline workers like municipality and sanitation workers, state and central police forces, civil defence and armed forces and revenue officers will be vaccinated, while people over 50 years of age will be vaccinated under category-3, and those below the age of 50 years who are ill will be vaccinated under category-4.