<span style="color: #222222;">Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch the drive through video conferencing address at Vileparle's Cooper Hospital while Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray will kickstart Mumbai's vaccination campaign at 10 a.m. at the Vaccination Centre at Bandra-Kurla Complex.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">&nbsp;</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">In the First Phase of Corona preventive vaccine developed by Pune-based Serum Institute, mainly health workers, doctors and nurses will be vaccinated, while the other essential service personnel group including police, cleaners, Central Reserve Police Force personnel and among others will be vaccinated in the Second Phase of the drive. In the Third Phase, the elderly persons above 50 years of age and patients with various diseases will be vaccinated. Vaccination can be done by showing an official identity card.&nbsp;</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The vaccinated person will be kept under the supervision of a specialist doctor for 30 minutes. If any side effects are found after vaccination, one can call the municipality or the nearest immunization center for any help.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">AIR Correspondent reports,&nbsp;Brihanmumbai Municipal Commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal has informed that in Mumbai over one and a half lakh health workers will be vaccinated in the First Phase of vaccination beginning tomorrow.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">&nbsp;</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The vaccination programme will be conducted at the nine Vaccination Centres in Mumbai. All these centres will have a total of 40 vaccination booths. A total of 4,000 people will be vaccinated at these 40 booths every day. With Jumbo COVID Centre of BKC there are eight key centres selected for the vaccination in Mumbai including KEM Hospital in Parel, Nair hospital, Sion hospital, Cooper hospital, Rajawadi hospital, V. N Desai hospital, Bhabha and Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Shatabdi Hospital.&nbsp;</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">&nbsp;</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">In the First Phase, health workers in essential services will be vaccinated. For this, the COWIN app has been developed and the concerned will be informed about the centre and time of vaccination text message.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">&nbsp;</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">As a large number of citizens are expected to be vaccinated in the Third Phase, in addition to the nine centres 63 more Vaccination Centres will be started in Megapolis. At that time, it will have the capacity to vaccinate about 50,000 citizens in a day.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">&nbsp;</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The neighbouring Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation is also ready for the Corona vaccination drive. According to our correspondent, a stock of 21,000 vaccines has been made available to NMMC for vaccination and three Divisional Nodal Officers have been appointed for tomorrow's immunization to be held at five centres. As many as 100 people will be vaccinated every day at each centre. While in Thane Municipal Corporation as many as 400 health workers will be vaccinated in four major centres across the city.&nbsp;</span><br />'' &nbsp;
News On AIR | January 15, 2021 10:01 PM
PM Modi to launch vaccination drive with virtual address at Vileparle's Cooper Hospital in Maharashtra tomorrow