Vijayawada: The Andhra Pradesh Government issued an order for establishment of a Covid- 19 Special Task Force for vaccination drive. The task force comprising teams in district, mandal and urban levels, to carry out the Covid-19 vaccination drive.

The Government also instructed the District Collectors to identify inoculation and vaccine storage sites, arrange human resource, manage database of people who will be administered the vaccine in the first phase, prepare for adverse events following immunization, development and management of a mobile application, and establishment of a call centre and a control room. According to the  GO, each inoculation site must have five officials, a lady police officer or home guard or NCC cadet for security, a digital assistant or volunteer to verify beneficiaries, a village or ward secretariat or ANM or sub-centre ANM, AWW or AW helper to manage crowd in the waiting area, and an ASHA worker.

A mobile application will also be developed for capturing details of vaccination sites, vaccinators and beneficiaries. This apart, the existing ‘104’ call centre will be customized with another add-on number or an extension which will redirect the caller to vaccination-related information.