NE states join nationwide Covid vaccination drive

Guwahati/Agartala, Jan 16 : The eight northeastern states joined the nationwide Covid-19 vaccination drive on Saturday with thousands of frontline health workers across hundreds of centres getting inoculated for the infection.
Chief Ministers and Health Ministers of northeastern states formally rolled out the vaccination programme in the state capitals whereas senior health officials especially of the National Health Mission (NHM) have been constantly monitoring the inoculation drive and registering the necessary data in the Covid Vaccine Intelligence Network (CoWIN) platform.
Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal was present at the Assam Medical College and Hospital at Dibrugarh to monitor the vaccination process, which was also simultaneously conducted at 65 session sites across 33 districts.
At Gauhati Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) retired Vice Chancellor of Sankardeva University of Health Science Umesh Chandra Sarma was the first person to receive the shot.
Health and Finance Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma attended the vaccination drive at the GMCH, where more than 11 prominent doctors including its Superintendent Abhijeet Sharma have been administered Covid-19 vaccination as a confidence building measures for the health workers who are bravely serving in the war against the disease.
After taking the shots, the doctors told the media that the vaccines are safe and people should take them without any fear or doubt in due course of time.