Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, July 7

After the Health Department ran out of vaccines here on Tuesday, as many as 19,700 people were vaccinated in the district during the vaccination programme on Wednesday.

While a single-day high of 62,000 vaccines was recently reached by the Health Department, supply in the district still remains erratic. Until today, 38.56 percentage of population has been vaccinated in the district. Having received 21,000 vaccines last night, after having exhausted 19,700 of these (until 6 pm) in the drive today, the Health Department is yet to receive doses for the drive tomorrow.

With vaccines mostly arriving after a gap of a day, the department has to vaccinate people on alternate days as per the supply. As per health records until today with 38.5 per cent vaccinated 8,45,902 people in the distrsict have received vaccinations so far. Of these, the majority are in the age group of 45 -59 (2,60,154), the next most vaccinated group in those in the 60 plus age slot (2,28,439 of whom have been vaccinated). The least vaccinated age group is 18 plus on which age slot only 2 lakh 16,122 people have been vaccinated.

Barring this, 1,09,141 frontline workers have been vaccinated in the district. Of health workers, merely 32,046 have been vaccinated.

Distrsict Immunisation Officer Dr Rakesh Chopra said, “We administer vaccines as per supply. The government provides us as many vaccines as it gets and we promptly administer all the vaccines. The supply scenario is the same everywhere. We have administered 19,700 vaccines today and the drive tomorrow depends on how many more vaccines we get.”