The Telangana Government which started the Novel Coronavirus or COVID-19 vaccine from the 16th of January, decided to divide centres.
After being approved by the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) two India made vaccines, COVAXIN and Covishield was administered to Indians.
In the effort to make the process easy, the Telangana Government decided to have seperate centres for covishield and COVAXIN.
The Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) Government received both Covishield and COVAXIN vaccines in the last week.
While Covishield is manufactured by the Serum Institute of India (SII,) COVAXIN was developed by the Hyderabad based Bharat Biotech International Private Limited.
On the first day of the vaccination drive, the State Health Department administered only Covishield vaccine.
However, from the next week the State Government would start administering COVAXIN.
The Director of public health and family welfare said that the persons vaccinated should be given two doses of the same vaccine and it would be easy to maintain the data of vaccinated persons separately.
He said that a detailed plan has been prepared for next week.
Meanwhile, the State is set to receive another 3.5 lakh doses of vaccine in the coming days.
In the view of vaccination drive, the state government instructed the health officials to identify more district hospitals, area hospitals and community health centres as vaccination centres instead of primary health centres.
In addition, the Telangana Government also decided to increase the vaccination centre to 324 from current 140.
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