{"id":74512,"date":"2020-12-28T18:13:08","date_gmt":"2020-12-28T12:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=74512"},"modified":"2021-01-04T13:40:34","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T08:10:34","slug":"essentiality-of-dry-run-for-covid-vaccines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/essentiality-of-dry-run-for-covid-vaccines\/","title":{"rendered":"Essentiality of Dry run for COVID vaccines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Synopsis:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Dry runs aimed at testing the planned operations are essential for Covid 19 vaccination process<strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Background<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In the coming weeks, the Phase-3 data of two\u00a0<strong>COVID-19<\/strong>\u00a0vaccines tested by Indian manufacturers are expected to be submitted for\u00a0<strong>emergency use approval.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>A countrywide rollout to immunize the\u00a0<strong>four high-risk groups<\/strong>\u00a0will begin soon in India if any of the vaccines gets the approval.<\/li>\n<li>So, to be prepared in hand the government has rightly decided to undertake a\u00a0<strong>dry run<\/strong>\u00a0for\u00a0<strong>vaccine administration<\/strong>. The dry run is expected to be initiated this week in four States of Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Gujarat, and Punjab.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Why the Dry run is essential?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Though, India has been vaccinating millions of young children with a variety of vaccines each year the aspects of the COVID-19 vaccination Programme are new.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Firstly<\/strong>, this is the first time a vaccine to be administered outside the\u00a0<strong>universal immunisation Programme<\/strong>\u00a0and specifically for\u00a0<strong>adults belonging to specific groups<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Second<\/strong>, there is a need for administering two doses of the vaccine a few weeks apart and enrolling the recipients which is different compared to our running vaccination drives.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Third,<\/strong>\u00a0it will allow the administrators to check the usage of the\u00a0<strong>Co-WIN IT platform<\/strong>\u00a0for management of the entire vaccination process including data entry, allocation of date and time and a drill of session sites with test beneficiaries.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fourth,\u00a0<\/strong>it will also help to test the linkages between planning, implementation and reporting mechanisms.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What are the measures that needs to be ensured during Dry run exercise?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The first task is to register the recipients of vaccine identified from the from the\u00a0<strong>high-risk groups<\/strong>\u00a0on the\u00a0<strong>Co-WIN platform<\/strong>\u00a0to\u00a0<strong>avoid inclusion and exclusion errors<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>When more than one vaccine becomes available, it is essential to ensure that people receive the same vaccine twice and the exercise should confirm that the Co-WIN platform is able to generate the date and time when people can receive the second dose<strong>.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>As no COVID-19 vaccine has undergone long-term follow-up for safety during the trial it is very essential to Check and\u00a0<strong>report on all adverse events after the vaccination<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Regarding storage of vaccines, the existing facilities of the\u00a0<strong>universal immunisation Programme<\/strong>\u00a0in most districts can be used for storing the vaccines since the vaccines that are at an advanced stage of testing in India do not require ultra-low temperature for delivery and storage.<\/li>\n<li>Also, the exercise should look at creating additional storage capacity at these facilities to store millions of COVID-19 vaccines as the plan is to vaccinate 300 million people in the four high-risk groups for which it requires 600 million doses.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Synopsis:\u00a0\u00a0Dry runs aimed at testing the planned operations are essential for Covid 19 vaccination process. Background In the coming weeks, the Phase-3 data of two\u00a0COVID-19\u00a0vaccines tested by Indian manufacturers are expected to be submitted for\u00a0emergency use approval. A countrywide rollout to immunize the\u00a0four high-risk groups\u00a0will begin soon in India if any of the vaccines gets&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/essentiality-of-dry-run-for-covid-vaccines\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Essentiality of Dry run for COVID vaccines<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":74517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,1351,1310,9],"tags":[1289,1456,1472],"class_list":["post-74512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-daily-news","category-daily-news-updates","category-public","tag-soc_0","tag-soc_01","tag-vaccine_related_issues","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Essentiality-of-Dry-run-for-COVID-vaccines.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704821250},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}