Dikhyaa Mohanty 
Odisha Government announced the 160 session sites in 30 districts and five urban local bodies (ULBs) for the COVID-19 vaccination drive on 16th January. Bijay Panigrahi, Health Director informed the 160 session sites and the planning regarding the forthcoming Coronavirus vaccination in the state.
As per the information, the vaccination will be administered at medical colleges, government and sub-divisional hospitals, post-partum centers, CHCs, PHCs, urban CHCs and PHCs, and private hospitals. For the first phase of the vaccination drive, Odisha has the required infrastructure.
Panigrahi informed that 100 health workers will be given the vaccine at each site in the first phase. The arrival date of the vaccine is not yet announced but the 160 sites from Odisha are among the 5000 session sites selected across the country for the Coronavirus vaccine.
PK Mohapatra, Additional Chief Secretary of Health department stated that around 100 persons will be vaccinated at each session site on the first day of the vaccination program. All the essential arrangements have also been made and the vaccine stores and the cold chain up to the session sites are also been made ready.
As per the reports the highest 10 sites is from Mayurbhanj district, eight each from Cuttack and Puri, seven each in Kalahandi and Rayagada, six each in Kendrapara, Keonjhar, and Sundargarh, and five each in Balasore, Jajpur, Kandhamal, Khurda, Koraput and Sambalpur
In four-session sites each, the vaccination will be begun in Bargarh, Dhenkanal, Gajapati, Jagatsinghpur, Jharsuguda, Nabarangpur, and Nayagarh, three each in Balangir, Bhadrak, Boudh, Malkangiri and Nuapada, and two each in Angul, Deogarh, and Sonepur.
On five sites the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation has been selected following by three each in Cuttack and Berhampur and two each in Rourkela and Sambalpur for vaccination of healthcare workers. After the system generated information the healthcare workers who will be vaccinated will have to come to the session sites.
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