Our Correspondent

Hoshiarpur, July 1

The district administration is all set to organise mega vaccination camps on July 3 to ensure maximum inoculation of eligible beneficiaries of both first and second dose by setting a target of administering 50,000 doses on Saturday.

While apprising the people of the current Covid situation in the district during her weekly Facebook live session, DC Apneet Riyait exhorted people to get them inoculated at these camps to be held in rural as well as urban areas on Saturday. She said the details of session sites would be shared with the public through various media platforms by Thursday evening and the people should make mega vaccination camps a great success to contain the Covid in the district. She said adequate number of doses of Covishield would be available during the camps so that the maximum number of people could be jabbed.

206 Hoshiarpur villages achieve 100% target

• Hoshiarpur district on Thursday achieved 100 per cent vaccination target in 206 villages, besides setting a target of administering more than 85,000 doses in a single day during mega camps to be held on Saturday, both in rural and urban areas
• The district administration has further intensified efforts to ensure inoculation of all eligible beneficiaries with setting up more than 170 session sites in the district
• DC Apneet Riyait said the teams of the district administration and health department were in constant touch with the panchayats and sarpanches to ensure timely vaccination of masses. She said in the coming days, the remaining villages will also be covered

Expressing satisfaction over the decline in the number of Covid cases as the positivity percentage is 0.5 percent, Apneet Riyait also appealed to people to take all precautions without any fail so that this infection could effectively be contained. She said there were four hotspots in the district, including Chakk Khela, Kapahat, Khiala Bulanda, and Pandori Soomlan.

The DC also said skill development centres and universities were allowed to open with at least one dose of Covid to all staff and students besides adhering to all protocols. The bars, pubs and ahatas shall also be allowed to open at 50 per cent capacity with strict compliance of necessary protocols, including social distancing and at least one dose of vaccine to all staff members, waiters and other employees. Action will be taken under Sections 51 to 60 of The Disaster Management Act, 2005 in case of any violations of these directives.