The COVID-19 vaccine Jani took was developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University. In Koraput, a team of officials spent months putting together a local COVID-19 vaccination plan, officials said. And where mobile coverage was patchy, like Jani's Pendajam village, health workers were called to meetings to inform them of vaccination plans, followed by visits from supervisors to people registered to be inoculated. Despite initial glitches, particularly with CO-WIN - a centralised digital platform to roll out and track India's mammoth vaccination programme - officials in Koraput said the system would suffice for the first two phases. The fears are rife among health workers too, prompting India to appeal to frontline workers not to refuse vaccines after many states failed to meet initial vaccination targets.

Source: bd News24 January 25, 2021 03:56 UTC