Varanasi: Around 40,000 get Covid vaccination in a day

VARANASI: The district administration and health officials improved their own record of Covid-19 vaccination with administering vaccine to around 40,000 persons in a single day on Tuesday.
According to chief medical officer Dr VB Singh, the previous record of the district was of vaccinating over 28,000 persons in a single day in July. Over 12 lakh people have been vaccinated till Monday in Varanasi and the target for Tuesday was fixed to vaccinate 55,900 persons, said the CMO adding that till 6pm on Tuesday the figures of around 33,156 vaccination had been uploaded on the official portal while the process continued till late evening and reports continued coming for further compilation till late evening.
To achieve the target, 297 sessions were conducted at 120 centres in the district between 10am and 5pm. The centres were created by creating clusters, said the CMO adding that 56 centres were created in rural belt, 65 in city area, eight at workplaces and one woman special centre. Maximum 186 sessions were conducted in rural areas while 72 sessions were held in city, eight at workplaces and one at the woman special vaccination centre.
With major focus on rural areas, arrangements were made to cover over 36,000 persons here. Walk-in facility was also made available for rural masses to ensure that they get vaccinated even without prior registration.
These measures initiated by the administration and health department resulted in huge turnout of vaccine seekers at the centres in rural areas like Kashi Vidyapeeth block headquarters. The centre in-charges had to exercise hard in the morning hours to control the crowd at the registration counters as instead of queuing up people were in hurry to get registered for vaccination on priority.