Precaution Doses of COVID-19 Vaccines Available in DK & Udupi From January 20: Click For Details

Precaution Doses of COVID-19 Vaccines Available in DK & Udupi From January 20: Click For Details

Second and precaution doses of Covishield and Covaxin will be available across government health facilities in Dakshina Kannada and Udupi from Friday, January 20. The two vaccines will be available at 76 government health facilities in Dakshina Kannada from 9 a.m. on Friday. It includes the Government Wenlock Hospital, 65 urban and rural primary health centres, six community health centres and in four taluk hospitals, he said.

Karnataka government has released 38,000 doses of Covishield. As many as 10,000 doses each have been distributed to Mangalore, Bantwal and Puttur taluks, while 5,000 and 3,000 doses have been issued for Belthangady and Sullia taluks respectively. 50 doses of Covishield has been released to K.S. Hegde Hospital, which will vaccinate people free of cost on behalf of the government. More private hospitals are coming forward to administer free doses, he said. The present stock of Covishield doses have to be administered by February 9, while the Covaxin has to be administered by January 31, he said.

In Udupi, a special camp will be conducted on Friday to administer second dose and precaution doses of the vaccine across 69 government health facilities in the district. The district has stock of 12,500 doses of Covishield vaccine and 5,800 doses of Covaxin. Starting from January 20, special camps will be held in colleges to administer precaution doses to degree students.