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Vaccination dry run: 125 beneficiaries each in 4 states register for shots

The dry run was being carried out in Krishna district in AP, in Rajkot and Gandhinagar in Gujarat, Ludhiana and Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar in Punjab, Sonitpur and Nalbari districts in Assam

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The dry run was being carried out in five locations with 25 test beneficiaries (healthcare workers) for each session

2 min read Last Updated : Dec 28 2020 | 11:50 PM IST

As the country eagerly awaits an expected coronavirus vaccination drive in January, at least 125 intended beneficiaries each in four states who had registered on the Co-WIN App were on Monday sent SMSes informing them about the time and place of their 'Covid-19 vaccination' under a mock-drill to administer the shots at designated centres.

The two-day end-to-end dry run was being carried out in Krishna district in Andhra Pradesh, in Rajkot and Gandhinagar in Gujarat, Ludhiana and Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar (Nawanshahr) in Punjab and Sonitpur and Nalbari districts in Assam.

It is being conducted to test the laid out mechanisms for

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