andhra-pradeshUpdated: Dec 26, 2020, 18:48 ISTThe Andhra Pradesh government on Saturday began the exercise of conducting dry-run for the ensuing Covid-19 vaccination which is scheduled to be held on December 28 and 29. Andhra Pradesh is one of the four states chosen by the Central government to carry out end-to-end dry-run for Covid-19 vaccination programme, besides Gujarat, Punjab and Assam. “The dry-run, which is a sort of dummy vaccination programme, is aimed at testing the planned operations and the laid-out mechanisms for Covid-19 vaccination in the state. The dry-run will be conducted at government general hospital in Vijayawada, primary health centre at Uppuluru, Purna Heart Institute, Penamaluru primary health centre and Prakash Nagar urban primary health centre. Bhaskar said the dry-run programme would be videographed and the report would be submitted to the district and state-level task force committees.

Source: Hindustan Times December 26, 2020 12:59 UTC