Uttar Pradesh Shocker: Man given first dose of Covaxin, gets Covishield in second session of vaccination

New Delhi: India has administered more than 33 lakh COVID-19 vaccine doses in the last 24 hours, said the Union Health Ministry on Thursday. According to the health ministry, 11,44,93,238 vaccine doses have been administered through 16,98,138 sessions, as per the provisional report till 7 am today.

Huge number of people are coming forward to take the vaccine but one major goof-up in UP has shocked everyone. A man, Umesh, in the Maharajganj district of Uttar Pradesh was allegedly administered shots of two different Covid vaccines.

Umesh works as a driver for the Chief Development Officer (CDO), Maharajganj, Gaurav Singh Sogarwal. He and other drivers went to a district hospital to get the second dose of vaccine and during his second visit to the hospital, he was vaccinated with Covishield.

As soon as the administrative officers got the news, officials immediately reached the spot. Umesh informed that he was administered the first dose of Covacin on February 25. He was scheduled to take the second jab on March 25 but due to some unforeseen circumstances it got delayed. So, he went for the vaccination on 13th April for the second dose.

CMO AK Srivastava clarified that no side effect has been seen due to the mixup. “However, this incident should not have happened and all the health workers have been instructed to give second dose of the same vaccine [beneficiaries were] administered before,” he added.

As per the guidelines of the Health Ministery of India, both the doses of vaccine should be of the same brand.