hyderabad dr srinivasa rao director of public health telangana became the first person in the state to take covaxin on monday the bharat biotechdeveloped vaccine which had so far not been introduced in the state will be rolled out from tuesday onwards at vaccination sites the interest seen for covaxin is encouraging it is being introduced from tuesday the vaccine doses have been sent to districts said rao speaking to toi meanwhile on monday a total of 19923 frontline workers were administered covid vaccine frontline workers including police personnel staff of panchayati raj and municipal administration department as well as central armed forces are being administered the vaccine currently in the ongoing second phase of the vaccination programme about 41 of targeted beneficiaries were vaccinated the total target for monday was 51500 with the latest numbers the state has reached the cumulative target of 38 of vaccination target so far covering 228 lakh beneficiaries of these 35360 were frontline workersthe vaccination drive was conducted through 584 sessions five minor cases of adverse effects following immunization aefi were reported on monday