The dry run of the covid vaccination is carried out successfully across 46 centers across 14 districts in Kerala, the health department of Kerala said on Friday.
The department has also said that the movement of vaccination was carried out successfully in both the urban areas and rural areas.
The health department also added that “All the mandatory trial runs were conducted in all the centers of the state,”
The state government has requested the central government for 5 lake Does of the covid-19 vaccine. The health officials have said that even if the quantity of the does are more. The department has all the facilities to store that The vaccine of covid has reached the state from Chennai and the health department has put all proper channels to distribute the vaccine across the state.
The first dry run of covid vaccination in Kerala was conducted on 2 January at 6 centers in Idukki, Wayanad, Thiruvananthapuram, and Palakkad districts.
The current vaccine storage capacity in the state is sufficient for more than 10 lake covid vaccine doses. the officials added.
The current vaccine storage capacity in Kozhikode, Thiruvananthapuram, and Ernakulamas well as the district vaccine centers together have 3 walk-in coolers and 521 ILRs (ice-lined refrigerators).
The state primary health centers are having 1,589 ILRs and 69 large ILRs.
The Union health ministry has already earmarked 20 more ILRs, 1,800 vaccine carriers, and 12,000 ice packs for the state of Kerala.
