Two Day dry run conducted for COVID-19 Vaccination successfully

The objective of dry the run was also to undertake and confirm field implementation of IT platform Co-WIN and guide way forward prior to actual implementation.

New Delhi, 29th Dec: Union Health Ministry today said that the dry run for COVID-19 Vaccination has been successfully conducted in four states of Assam, Andhra Pradesh, Punjab and Gujarat.

The two-day end-to-end dry run was undertaken in Krishna district of Andhra Pradesh, Rajkot and Gandhinagar in Gujarat, Ludhiana and Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar in Punjab and Sonitpur and Nalbari districts of Assam.

The exercise is aimed at identifying challenges and make required changes in the plan so that the final process becomes foolproof. The Ministry said, specific teams were formed for various tasks by the district administration and activities like uploading of dummy beneficiary’s data, vaccine allocation, communication vaccination details to vaccinators and beneficiaries, beneficiary mobilization were carried out.