Chandigarh, Mar 1 (UNI) Union Minister of State for Jal Shakti and Social Justice and Empowerment Rattan Lal Kataria on Monday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s COVID vaccination is a message to the countrymen that it is safe for all and rumours against the COVID vaccine are baseless.
Addressing a press conference here on the ongoing COVID vaccination drive in the country, especially on the vaccine received by Prime Minister at AIIMS New Delhi Monday, Mr Kataria said with the beginning of Covid-19 vaccination, the elderly, aged 60 plus and 45 plus with co-morbidities, are all set to enter a decisive phase in the fight against Covid-19.
Haryana will use around 10,000 hospitals under Ayushman Bharat PMJAY and 687 Hospitals under CGHS as Covid Vaccination Centres (CVCs). The state has also allowed all Private Hospitals empanelled under State Government Health Insurance Schmes to promote as CVCs along with using health facilities of all PSUs and all Government health facilities as CVCs. Vaccination at Private Hospitals is capped at Rs 250 per person per dose, he added.