500-600 Covid centres in phase 1 of vaccination: Delhi govt

New Delhi, Jan 3 : The Delhi government on Sunday announced it would run 500 to 600 Covid centres in the first phase of vaccination soon after the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) gives approval to Serum Institute of India’s ‘Covishield’ vaccine and Bharat Biotech’s ‘Covaxin’ for emergency use.
Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain made the announcement during a press conference while commenting on the protocol that will be followed for the rollout of the vaccine.
The minister said “500-600 Covid centres will be set up in the first phase and it will be further escalated to 1,000. Storage facilities have been made. Ultimately, 1,000 centres will be there.” On the approval of the vaccine by DCGI, Jain said, “we have just been made aware that the vaccines developed by Bharat Biotech and Serum Institute of India have been given approval.” “Delhi government is making all the arrangements. The protocol will be that health care and frontline workers, people over 50 years of age or with co-morbidities will be injected in the first phase of the roll-out,” said Jain.
“Delhi has 3 lakh healthcare workers and 6 lakh frontline workers. The vaccine will be first rolled out to these 9 lakh people.”