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India Coronavirus Dispatch: Learnings from first dry-run

Vaccine makers point to 'recruitment' challenges, Telangana's low caseload, FAQs around vaccination answered, and more news relevant to India's fight against Covid-19

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Several drugmakers have pointed to the difficulty in recruiting volunteers for phase 3 trials of the vaccine candidates under development

Bharath Manjesh New Delhi
Key learnings from the first Covid-19 vaccination dry-run

The key learnings from the dry-run held earlier this week across four states were to map remote locations better, report adverse events in real-time, and ramp up training, according to a report in The Indian Express.

Three issues were highlighted in the first dry run, according to the report. First, pin-codes from some villages were not mapped to the Co-Win platform, India's digital system that will track and monitor the vaccination programme. Second, “adverse events” could only be reported to the Co-Win platform after the end of an entire vaccination session – in this