JAIPUR: On the second day of the second phase of Covid-19 vaccination on Friday, workers of various municipal corporations,
Nagar Palika and other local bodies got vaccinated as frontline workers. Though vaccination for
health care workers was not planned in many districts, 82.3% of them got vaccinated. On the other hand, 67.0 % of frontline workers were vaccinated.
Sawai Madhopur achieved a
target of 93% of the total target while Banswara recording only 47%.
Since January 16, 4,14,422 people have been vaccinated out of the total target of 6,17,920. “Out of these 3,66,416 health care workers and 48,006 frontline workers were vaccinated. Very few adverse effects of vaccination have been reported so far,” said a senior doctor who is also a part of the planning and distribution of vaccines in the state.
However, chaos prevailed at many centres were sanitation workers were waiting to get vaccinated as the vaccines arrived late at these centres. “I am sitting here since 9am. One hour has passed and there is no intimation,” said Ghanshyam Lonwal, a sanitation worker at
Vidhyadhar Nagar locality.
On Saturday authorities are planning to cover police personnel for the vaccination.