Dry run of Covid vaccination concludes in Andhra’s Krishna district

Vijayawada, Dec 29 : The administration in Andhra Pradesh’s Krishna district successfully completed the two-day dry run of Covid-19 vaccination on Tuesday.
A day after conducting various activities as part of the process, the state health authorities submitted a report on the dry run to the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, listing the issues involved for necessary action The feedback on the dry run was provided by the District Task Force and the State Task Force via video conferencing conducted by the Joint Secretary (Public Health) with officials of Andhra Pradesh and three other states where the process was conducted on Monday.
The feedback is expected to provide insights on any gaps or bottle-necks during actual conduct of vaccination.
The officials expressed satisfaction in terms of the operational approach and use of IT platform to ensure transparency and effective monitoring of vaccination processes. They made suggestions on improvements for Co-WIN, the IT platform for vaccination.
The dry run exercise was aimed at end-to-end testing of Covid-19 vaccination process and included planning and preparations as per the operational guidelines; creation of facilities and users on Co-WIN application, session site creation and mapping of sites, Health Care Workers (HCW) data upload, receipt of vaccines and vaccine allocation by the district, session planning, deployment of vaccination team, logistics mobilization at session site, mock drill of conducting vaccination and reporting and review meetings at block, districts and state level.