India conducts dry run of Covid-19 vaccination: Images from cities

A view from Urban Primary Health Centre near Vidyapeeta Circle in south Bengaluru in Karnataka on January 2 . A two-hour dry run of Covid vaccination was conducted at 15 health centres across the state — Chethan Shivakumar

Kerala health minister KK Shailaja overseeing the dry run at Peroorkada Government Hospital in Thiruvananthapuram — Rakesh Nair

Health workers prepare for the Covid-19 vaccination mock drill and dry run at Rajawadi Municipal Corporation Hospital in Maharashtra capital Mumbai on January 2 — PTI

The dry run was conducted in Panaji along with three other locations in Goa — Corlim, Aldona and Old Goa on January 2 — Rajtilak Naik

Director of health services Dr Amandeep Kang showing a dummy SMS sent to all selected beneficiaries for mock vaccination. The dry run was conducted in the city at three sites — GMSH 16, Manimajra and Sector 22 hospital on January 2 — Balish Ahuja

An ASHA (Accredited Social Health Activist) worker checks personal documents at Gandhi Shatabdi Hospital in Dehradun. The Uttarakhand health department conducted the dry run at five places in the state capital on January 2 — Sukanta Mukherjee

Twenty-five beneficiaries — all honorary health workers chosen for the exercise — at a health centre in Madhyamgram area near Kolkata in West Bengal — Kamalendu Bhadra

An official (L) administers a dummy Covid-19 vaccine to a receiver in the presence of Odisha health secretary PK Mohapatra and senior health officials at Capital Hospital in Bhubaneswar on January 2 — Sanjib Das

The dry run exercise was kicked off under the supervision of municipal commissioner Radhakrishnan B at the KT Nagar Health Center falling under Nagpur Municipal Corporation in Maharashtra on January 2 — Ranjit Deshmukh

The dry run is in progress at the Government Community Health Centre in Madhya Pradesh capital Bhopal’s Gandhi Nagar area — A Moeed Faruqui

A volunteer takes part in the dry run at Manipal Hospital in Jaipur on January 2 — PTI

A health worker conducts the dry run at a health centre in Patna's Phulwari Sharif area on January 2 — Rahul Sharma

The dry run for Covid-19 vaccination is on at Urban Primary Health Centre in Tamil Nadu capital Chennai's Santhome area — A Prathap

Pune district officials in Maharashtra carried out the dry run for vaccination at Jijamata Hospital in Pimpri — Ashish Gupta

Health officials take part in the dry run at a primary health centre in Telangana capital Hyderabad on January 2 — Venkat Rao M

Union health minister Dr Harsh Vardhan visits a health care centre at Daryaganj in New Delhi to review the dry run of the Covid-19 vaccination programme — Yogesh Kumar