Goemkarponn Desk
PANAJI: Second round of Covid-19 vaccination is underway at 7 centers across Goa. The drive will go one for 2 consecutive days, today and tomorrow.
With 100 being vaccinated at each center per day nearly 1,400 health workers are expected to get inoculated in 2 days time. 426 health care workers were vaccinated in Goa on Saturday , Jan 16, when the countrywide vaccination drive was launched. Stressing on the need to get inoculated with Covid vaccine,
Oncologist Dr Shekahr Salkar said “Number of Covid cases are coming down. If we do not take a vaccine and at least 50 percent of the population is not vaccinated in the next 2-3 months, a second wave is likely to come.” He also pointed out that it is normal for some mild symptoms like fever to occur after vaccination.
Almost a week since it started the “world’s largest” vaccination exercise with its home-grown inoculants, India crossed a major milestone on Friday — of administering jabs to at least 10.5 lakh, more than a million, beneficiaries, the health ministry has said.The number of people who have received a jab of the two-dose vaccine in India since January 16 is “more than many other countries”, the Health Ministry said in a statement amid the government’s increased push to spread information on their safety.”In the last 24 hours, 2,37,050 healthcare workers were vaccinated across 4,049 sessions… On the testing front too, India continues to register growing numbers… cumulative testing has crossed 19 crore. This helped bring down the positivity rate to 5.59% as of today,” the statement read as India reported some 14,000 cases against 8 lakh tests with 167 deaths.