Covid vaccine for 16 lakh frontline warriors in K’taka: CM

Bengaluru, Jan 11 : About 16 lakh frontline warriors across Karnataka would get Covid vaccine in phase one from January 16, Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa said on Monday.
“Sixteen lakh frontline workers will be given the second dose of the vaccine 28 days after the first jab from January 16 onwards across the state,” said Yediyurappa after participating in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s virtual meeting with chief ministers of all the states on vaccine roll-out.
Modi told the chief ministers during the interaction that the Centre would bear the cost of vaccinating 3 crore frontline warriors across the country in phase one.
The warriors include workers from the state’s health, revenue and police departments who have been involved in the fight against the pandemic since mid-March last year.
“Vaccines will be administered at 235 sites across the state. Cold chains have been set up to store Covishield and Covaxin vaccines in all the 30 districts. Task forces have been formed to supervise the exercise,” Yediyurappa said in a statement.
The state will get 13.90 lakh doses of vaccine in the first phase for all the frontline warriors.