Another milestone: Sangam city to achieve 10L Covid vaccination mark this week

PRAYAGRAJ: As the health department plans to ramp up the immunisation drive against Covid-19, the city is likely to zoom past the 10 lakh vaccination mark this week.
Till now, over 9.57 lakh doses have been administered to eligible recipients in the district, with over 10,000 jabs being administered across all age group daily.
Remarkably, around 4.48 per cent of the targeted recipients have so far taken both the doses of Covid vaccine in the Sangam City. With 3,985 more people taking the second jab, the number of people who are now fully immunised against Covid reached 1,79,089 on Sunday. With 19.51 per cent of the targeted recipients taking the first dose, their number has surged to 7,78,089.
Health officials have set a target of administering Covid vaccine to around 39.87 lakh people, including 27 lakh recipients aged between 18 and 44 and 12.87 lakh above 45 years.
As per the latest statistics of the health department, 9,57,660 Covid shots have been given to beneficiaries of all age groups in the district till July 11.
While 7,78,089 people have taken the first dose, 1,79, 571 recipients have received the second shot. A total of 10,368 vaccine shots were administered to people of all age groups in the past 24 hours, which included 6,383 recipients of the first dose and 3,985 of the second shot.
District immunisation officer (DIO) and additional chief medical officer Dr Teerath Lal told TOI, “We are making sincere efforts to increase the number of recipients in urban, semi urban and rural areas. We will be taking up vaccination at 44 sites from Monday including 21 sites in rural areas and 23 sites in urban areas.”
He said vaccination exercise will be carried out at all the 20 community health centres and one urban CHC in the district.
A senior health official said, “The number of vaccination sites relies on the availability of vaccine doses and if we have adequate stock of vaccines, the number of sites increases.”