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Delhi, (the states. news)
Union Health
Minister Harsh Vardhan will visit Tamil Nadu on Friday, to personally review
the dry run drill for administering the COVID-19 vaccine. ( #Corona_virus )
The second nationwide mock drill on COVID-19 vaccination will be held at three
session sites of 736 districts across 33 States/Union Territories on Friday.
‘As the country prepares for the COVID-19 vaccine roll out, Dr Vardhan will be
visiting the State of Tamil Nadu tomorrow. During his visit, Dr Vardhan will
personally review the preparedness and oversee the Dry Run operations at the
scheduled sites, ‘ the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said here on
Thursday.
‘A massive countrywide Mock Drill to prepare for COVID-19 vaccination is being
conducted on Friday at 736 districts across 33 States/UTs,’ the Ministry said.
The Union Health Minister will visit the sessions site at Government General
Hospital, Chennai, followed by the one at Government Omandurar Hospital,
Chennai.
In the afternoon, Dr Vardhan will visit the private vaccination centre in
Apollo Hospital, Chennai, after a brief visit to the General Medical Store
Depot in Periamedu.
This is one of the four national vaccine storage facilities, the other three at
Mumbai, Kolkata and Karnal.
Thereafter, Dr Vardhan will visit the vaccination Centre at Chengalpattu. He
will be visiting the Hindustan Bio-Tech Ltd Campus at Chengalpattu, after
concluding his supervision at these sites.
In a massive country-wide exercise on January 2, an end-to-end mock drill on
COVID-19 vaccine
administration was held in all States and UTs at 286 session sites, spread
across 125 districts. (uni) (media saheb.com)
Second nationwide mock drill on COVID-19 vaccination on Friday, Harsh Vardhan to visit TN
