Technical glitch mars inaugural day of vaccination for 12-14 group

At several other centres, very few beneficiaries in the age group turned up. For instance at Pune Municipal Corporation’s (PMC) largest Kamala Nehru Hospital, not a single dose could be administered despite sufficient number of vials.

Authorities at the hospital said two-three persons had come to the premises with their children in the morning but had to be sent back as the session for vaccination had not been created on the CoWin portal by then.

In Pune city, around 60 children were administered the vaccine, Dr Suryakant Deokar, city immunisation officer, said. “We have taken down names and mobile numbers of the parents who accompanied their children and have informed them to come on Thursday as the sessions have been created and the CoWin app is now functional,” he added.

Dr Sanjay Deshmukh, assistant director, health, Pune circle, which includes Pune, Satara and Solapur, admitted there was a delay and hence few vaccinations were conducted on the inaugural day of the nationwide rollout of Corbevax vaccine for the 12-14 age group.

Of the 963 children administered the vaccine doses in Pune, 843 were from rural areas.

60 children inoculated in Pimpri-Chinchwad, civic body expects numbers to improve from Thursday

There are 5.92 lakh beneficiaries in the 12-14 age group in Pune of which 32 per cent are from the city, 21 per cent from Pimpri-Chinchwad and 47 per cent from rural areas. A total of 1.2 lakh doses of Corbevax vaccine have been sent to Pune for the inoculation process.

In Pimpri-Chinchwad, around 60 children were administered the Corbevax vaccine on Wednesday. Like Pune, technical glitch marred Day 1 of the vaccination process at the industrial city as well.

Dr Laxman Gofane, who heads the medical department at the Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC), said, “There was some technical problem while logging in with CoWin app. Therefore, vaccination started late on the first day of administering Corbevax,” he said.

Dr Gofane said the civic body was expecting the number of beneficiaries to rise from Thursday.

The vaccination process is taking place at the civic-run Thergaon, Akurdi and Bhosari hospitals.