Gujarat: 80% of adult population to get first vaccine dose by September end

AHMEDABAD: The state government has informed the Gujarat high court that it aims to cover 80% of the state’s adult population with the first dose of Covid-19 vaccine by the end of September.
In its affidavit, the state health department said that the government “is putting in all efforts to carry out the vaccination drive with full vigour, as vaccination is a big weapon against stopping the chain of transmission of the virus.”

The state government has told the HC that as on June 30, it had total 5,95,030 vaccine doses. There were 5,12,260 Covishield doses and 82,770 doses of Covaxin in the stock. The government has claimed that 65.56 lakh people have received their first dose of vaccine, whereas 16.27 lakh have received the second dose as well. In 33 districts, 1.33 crore people have received their first dose and 39.08 lakh of them got the second dose also.
The state government supplied details of vaccination done till date, particularly in inmates and the staff members of special homes like children’s homes, old age homes, women shelter homes etc. It claimed that in nine grant-in-aid homes for the beggars, there are 145 residents. Of them, as many as 121 beggars have been inoculated.