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Citizens to get vaccinated in next few days: Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan

January 8, 2021, 2:39 PM

Sneha Shah | Chennai

Dr Harsh Vardhan

Dr Harsh Vardhan

After his visit to the session site in Chennais Government General Hospital to review second dry run for COVID-19 vaccination on Friday, Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare Dr Harsh Vardhan informed that the government should be able to give COVID-19 vaccines to countrymen in the next few days.

In short time, India has done well by developing vaccines. In the next few days, in the near future, we should be able to give these vaccines to our countrymen. It will be given to our healthcare professional followed by frontline workers, the Union Minister said.

The government has ensured that every detail regarding vaccination is conveyed to the people from the national level to the grassroots level.

Lakhs of healthcare workers are being trained through these dry runs, and the process to train more is still going on, he added.

He also requested the NGOs working in the field of health to help in the smooth rollout of the process.

After the first massive dry run for COVID-19 vaccinations on January 2, a second dry run was held on Friday to check the best way to vaccinate people against the virus.

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The dry run is taking place across 737 districts across 33 States/Union Territories in the country today. Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Arunachal Pradesh would not participate in this dry run as they have already gone through it.

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Active COVID cases near 30,000 mark in Nagpur

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4 years ago

January 25, 2022

Radhika Dhawad | Nagpur

Nagpur’s COVID-19 tally, on Tuesday, January 25, reached 5,43,064 (till 5 pm) as 4028 (972 from rural and 2956 from city) new cases were recorded in a single day.

Also, active COVID cases, as on Tuesday, could be seen inching closer to 30,000 mark in the district.

Six people lost their lives (one from rural and five from city) on Tuesday. Till now, 10,183 people have lost their lives due to COVID-19 in the district. Total tests taken were 11,377.

While patients who recovered on Tuesday were 2519, the total number of recovered patients stood at 503729.

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Nagpur reports 90 COVID cases in past 24 hours

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4 years ago

January 2, 2022

Radhika Dhawad | Nagpur

Nagpur’s COVID-19 tally on Sunday, January 2 reached 4,94,193 (till 5 pm) as 90 (73 city, nine rural) more people tested positive for the virus.

Also, five patients recovered on Sunday taking the number of recoveries to 4,83,664.

Till now, 10123 people have lost their lives due to COVID in the district. As of now, there are 406 active COVID patients in the district.

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ALARMING! Nagpur reports 88 COVID cases in past 24 hours

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4 years ago

December 31, 2021

Radhika Dhawad | Nagpur

Nagpur registered 88 (81 from city) new COVID-19 positive cases on Friday, December 31. Nagpur previously had recorded as minimum as six cases on December 24.