Covid-19 vaccines safe, healthcare workers have no reason to doubt: Govt

Healthcare workers must endorse the inoculation, declining will be matter of sadness: Government officials

A medic administers the first dose of Covishield vaccine to a frontline worker, after the virtual launch of Covid-19 vaccination drive by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, at a health center in Visakhapatnam, Saturday, Jan. 16, 2021. (PTI Photo)

With more than 630,000 vaccinated within the first four days of the drive in India — the fastest in the world in doing so — the government strongly urged health care workers to shed hesitancy and come forward to take the jab in order to create a Covid-proof health care system and achieve vaccine-induced herd immunity.

“The whole world is clamouring for a vaccine. If we still decline, it would be a matter of sadness… I will urge them (health care workers) to endorse the vaccine. We have to start non-Covid services; those who are fortunate to receive the Covid 19 vaccine should not refuse it,” said V K Paul, member (health), NITI Aayog. Paul, who has himself taken a shot of Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin, had assured people of safety. He said India has finally got a breather from Covid, and that this is the time to vaccinate as many as possible. So far, says the health ministry, ‘adverse events following immunisation’ (AEFI) make up 0.18 per cent of the total vaccinations, and only 0.002 per cent cases have ended in hospitalisation.

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“Concerns about adverse events following immunisation are unfounded and insignificant. We are in a situation of a lot of comfort. These two vaccines are safe. There is no undue reactogenicity,” said Rajesh Bhushan, health secretary. According to provisional numbers, a total of 177,368 beneficiaries were vaccinated on Tuesday, across 3,800 sessions. A total of nine cases of AEFI required hospitalisation, a health ministry statement said…

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