COVID vaccine dry run in four districts of Kerala on Saturday

To make the coronavirus vaccination drive a glitch-free program, a dry run would be held in Wayanad, Idukki and Palakkad districts of Kerala, besides Thiruvananthapuram on Saturday. It will identify the challenges in the process of planning, implementation, and thereby show a way forward for the actual large scale vaccination process.

Thiruvananthapuram: The dry run for the COVID vaccine before its actual implementation is to be conducted in 4 districts of Kerala, including Thiruvananthapuram, on Saturday.

The dry run would be held prior to the actual administration of the vaccine, to assess the operational feasibility of Co Win Application which would be used for COVID vaccination implementation, and to identify the challenges in the process of planning, implementation, and thereby show a way forward for the actual large scale vaccination process.

The dry run would be held in Wayanad, Idukki and Palakkad districts of Kerala, besides Thiruvananthapuram.

The dry run would test how the vaccination process can be planned and executed once the Centre gives the nod for implementation of the COVID vaccine. The dry run would be conducted in three centres in each of the four districts in the State. These centres would be equipped with waiting areas, injection rooms, and observation rooms.

Each person who gets the vaccine administered would be observed for 30 minutes at the facility.

While such processes are on, during the dry run, it would also be checked how the crowd would be regulated. Twenty-five persons would be registered through the Co Win application to each seat designated for the dry run. To complete the registration process by furnishing Adhar number, mobile number and other details, the OTP generated to the mobile must also be given.

In the dry run, the functional feasibility of these technical procedures would also be tested.

The high-level meeting chaired by Health Department Secretary Rajan Kobragade selected the districts and the centres in these districts. COVID vaccines would be administered in the health workers in the initial phase in the State. For this, the list of health workers has already been readied by the department.

Once the Centre gives the nod, the State is all set to start administering COVID vaccines.