Prayagraj: As many as 300 people above 60 years of age and those above 45 years of age with co-morbidities will be vaccinated at three vaccination sites including two government and one private vaccination site on Monday.
The vaccine will be given free of cost at two government facilities including MLN Medical college and TB Sapru \ Beli hospital while beneficiaries have to pay Rs 250 per dose at a private vaccination site.
Under the second phase of vaccination, district health authorities have chalked out an elaborate plan to administer covid 19 vaccines to people above 60 years of age and those above 45 years of age with co-morbidities in the city.
Nodal Officer and Additional chief medical officer Dr Rishi Sahai told TOI, “Hundreds of each beneficiary will be vaccinated at all three vaccination sites”. He added, “After identifying three sites for vaccination to people of age above 60 years, the department has also delivered the SMS to beneficiaries for the Monday vaccination plan. Moreover, the full-flagged exercise to vaccinate all people above 60 years of age and those above 45 years of age with co-morbidities would start from March 5. For that, the department is trying to find out more sites \ locations for vaccination.
Dr Sahai, meanwhile, said those who will be given vaccinate shot at a private vaccination centre will have to pay Rs 250 per dose.
The union health minister has recently announced to start the second phase of coronavirus vaccination from March 1 with the claim that in the second phase, people over 60 years of age and those above the age of 45 years with co-morbidities will be given the Covid-19 vaccine free-of-cost at 10,000 government hospitals. Meanwhile, candidates can also get the vaccine shot from over 20,000 private inoculation centres across the country.
Meanwhile, Dr Sahai claimed that the department has managed to control the surge of the Covid-19 cases in Sangam city with the help of intensive contact tracing ( ICT) exercise.
He added that last week had reported a surge in the cases of coronavirus infection in the city particularly when a total of 12 staffers of two educational institutes were tested positive for infection. He, however, said that there was no need to panic and things are under control. Health department officials have, however, appealed to the masses to follow the Covid-19 protocol which will help to check the spread of the disease.