A woman named Sunila Devi in Bihar was administered with both Covaxin and Covishield shots at an interval of five minutes. The 63-year-old woman is a resident of Awadhpur village and she received both of the jabs at the Beldarichak middle school vaccination camp in rural Patna.She is said to be in stable condition and is under the observation of doctors. Devi is said to have been inoculated twice “by mistake”. Following this, a team of medical experts have been deployed to the camp to investigate. They have asked for an explanation from the two nurses who administered the vaccines to Devi.
According to reports, Devi was administered with Covishield jab first after the due registration process. She was then asked to wait for five minutes and being unaware of the process, she stood in the second queue which was for the Covaxin jab. Sunila Devi said when she was waiting in the observation room, another nurse came and administered a jab of Covaxin.“I was sitting in the observation room when another nurse came and said she will give me a jab. I told her that I had already got one jab, but she said another jab will be given in the same hand,” Sunila Devi said, and demanded the authorities to act against those responsible for the negligence. The health department has, meanwhile, sought an explanation from the nurses at the vaccination camp, Chanchala Devi and Sunita Kumari. This is not the first such case that has emerged since the beginning of the inoculation drive in the country. In May, a 43-year-old woman in Rajasthan's Dausa village alleged she was jabbed with two doses of the Covid-19 vaccination simultaneously. India rolled out a massive vaccination drive in the country on January 16. It began with frontline workers at the top of the priority list, and has now opened to all above 18-year-olds.