INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Vijayawada: All is set for administration of Covid-19 vaccine Covishield at the rate of 100 doses each, one per person, at 332 session sites
per day beginning from January 16 to 20 in Andhra Pradesh.As the state government received 4.99 lakh doses of vaccine including 4.77 lakh
doses of Covishield and 20,000 doses of Covaxin from respective firms in the last two days, state health authorities distributed vaccine
government hospital in China Waltair on January 16
At the same time, health authorities will commence administration of the vaccine in other identified session sites all over the state.In
addition to the administration of vaccine in AP, the state government will also supply 320 doses of Covid-19 vaccine to be administered in
health authorities advised the energy department to avoid any disruption in power supply to session sites in order to continue the cold
The vaccine is supposed to be stored in the cold chain at a temperature between 2 C and 8 C.The authorities also directed the officials
taking care of the session sites to keep power backup that is supposed to start automatically in case of any disruption in power
supply.State health authorities maintain that as per initial plan, they will be administering 100 doses of vaccine at each session site for
number of vaccine doses received so far, the health authorities planned accordingly
Initially, only Covishield will be used as AP received 4.77 lakh doses
If a beneficiary is given the first dose of Covishield, he or she has to be given the same vaccine as the second dose with a gap of 28
