Vaccination camps to be set up in societies

Gurgaon: The district health department is planning to conduct vaccination camps in housing societies, community centres and industries to administer the second dose to recipients.
Health officials said the vaccination camps for the first dose were held in March and April at 285 sites, including at housing societies, condominiums and industries.
“The emphasis now will be on the administration of the second dose. The decision has been made since the people who were vaccinated in these camps are now scheduled to get their second dose of vaccine. The vaccines (second dose) will be administered for free at 285 sites,” said Dr MP Singh, district immunisation officer. He added that a few housing societies have already started the vaccine camps.
No govt vax camps today
The health department will not hold vaccinations at the government session sites on Sunday. Gurgaon inoculated 22,010 people on Saturday of whom 17,313 people were in the age group of 18 to 44. A total of 4,102 recipients were in the 45-plus category. Also, 184 healthcare workers and 411 frontline workers were vaccinated. A total of 100 session sites were set up across the private and government healthcare institutions. A total of 11,895 people received their first dose and 10,115 received their second dose.“We have sufficient stock of vaccine available to us and will receive a new stock of at least 10,000 doses,” added Singh.
City sees 9 new cases
Meanwhile, Gurgaon reported nine new cases of Covid-19 on Saturday, taking the caseload to 1,80,942. With this, the number of active Covid cases in Gurgaon stands at 83.
Overall, 73 patients are in home isolation and 10 are in dedicated Covid-19 hospitals and health centres. In the past 24 hours, Gurgaon conducted 4,196 tests, out of which 780 are rapid antigen tests and 3,416 tests are RT-PCR tests. The results of 1,659 tests are still awaited. Moreover, five recoveries were recorded on Saturday, increasing the total number of recoveries to 1,79,939.