Daijiworld Media Network- Panaji (AJD)
Panaji, Jan 24: On Saturday, third day of Covid vaccination 615 health care workers (HCW) were vaccinated in the state. The vaccination was done across eight centres with each one set a target to inoculate 100 HCWs.
On the first day of the launch of the vaccination drive last week, 470 HCWs received shots of Covishield, whereas on Friday 520 were vaccinated. Till date, a total of 1,605 HCWs have been vaccinated out of 18,000 odd registered on the CoWin portal. Of this, 370 have been vaccinated in GMC.
Till now no serious side effects from any vaccine receipent has been reported apart from a few mild cases that have been reported. Once the phase-I of vaccination ends, health services will undertake vaccination of frontline workers whose registration is under way.