Dead, Retired, And Resigned Nurses Are In COVID-19 Vaccine Registration List

In the first phase of immunization in Uttar Pradesh, the name of a dead nurse has been found in the list of people who will get the COVID-19 vaccine.

The list, prepared by the Health Department of the state for Ayodhya’s Dufferin Hospital has been faulty. Among other names, the list includes the names of three nurses. One is dead, one has retired, and one has already resigned.

Jai Pratap Singh, UP Health minister, has ordered a thorough investigation to look into the matter and find the responsible officials behind the list. The local officials said that the names were mistakenly put in the list that had been prepared three months ago and hadn’t been updated yet.

Essential workers living and working in Uttar Pradesh started receiving the vaccines at 852 centers around the state on 16 January when the country’s COVID-19 vaccination drive began. On January 11, a second dry run was carried out at 1,500 centers in the state.

In order of priority, an estimation of 3 crores frontline workers will receive the COVID-19 vaccines first. After that are those who are older than 50 years old and those who are younger than 50 years of age but with comorbidities. That will account for around 27 crores.

India has approved two COVID-19 vaccines, Serum Institute of India’s Covishield and Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin. The former is a “virus-vectored” vaccine using a weakened variant of a chimpanzee common cold virus to generate an immune response, thus preventing infection. Meanwhile, Covaxin was developed using a strain of the coronavirus.

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