Manipur, Jan. 22 -- The COVID-19 vaccination programme has been conducted only in 11 health centres of the state (including one private hospital) so far.

The Manipur government has identified 39,991 of the 41,000 frontline and healthcare workers to be vaccinated, and nearly 10,000 of them as first beneficiaries in the first phase of the nationwide COVID-19 vaccination drive that was launched in Manipur on January 16. However, in the first week of the vaccination programme, only 1,783 frontline health workers in the state have received the first dose of COVID-19 vaccine, according to the reports of the Directorate of Health and Family Welfare.

Earlier, the directorate of Health Services had selected 246 health centres in the state for CO...