Prayagraj: The sudden unprecedented rise in Covid-19 cases has made people feeling insecure and the fear of catching the infection is making them rush to get vaccinated.
While earlier people were apprehensive about the vaccine, now all those eligible for the jab are rushing towards vaccination centres.
On Monday, as many as 11,187 people got vaccinated at 97 sites in the city.
Officials of the health department said the Covid vaccination centres in the city saw a huge turnout, both at government health set-ups and private hospitals, for vaccination on Tuesday.
In order to inoculate maximum people, the district health department has decided to keep all vaccination centres open six days in a week.
Additional chief medical officer and nodal officer (urban vaccination) Dr. Satyendra Rai told TOI, Covid vaccination of beneficiaries of 45 years and above was done at 97 sites (156 sessions), including 84 sites in rural (124 sessions) and 13 sites in urban (32 sessions) areas since April 1.
The city-based vaccination centres and sites are witnessing more rush since the past two days compared to rural areas, he added.
There was so much rush at 11 vaccination centres in the city that people stood in queues to get vaccinated, he added.
Statistics of the health department reveal that as many as 32,863 beneficiaries were vaccinated at 97 sites between April 1 and 5, including 11,187 (April 5), 6,885 (April 3), 8,537 (April 2) and 6,254 (April1). The graph of Covid-19 vaccine beneficiaries crossed the 10,000 mark on Monday itself. Vaccination was not done on Sunday (April 4).
Officials said people were lax and not many of those registered used to come earlier, but are flocking to vaccination centres now after the rise in number of Covid cases.
The city reported a total of 2,043 Covid-19 cases between April 1 and 5, including 652 (April5), 475 (April 4), 398 (April 3), 296 (April 2) and 222 (April 1) respectively.
“We had noticed excellent response from the beneficiaries in urban vaccination centres last week and are taking all the necessary measures to ensure that maximum number of beneficiaries arrive at rural vaccination centres too,” said an official, adding “A strategy has already been chalked out to bring more and more beneficiaries to vaccination sites for both rural and urban areas” he added.