After festive lull, Vidarbha sees over 81k jabs in a day

Nagpur: After a four-day festival break at most centres, the vaccination drive in Vidarbha resumed full-fledged on Monday with the local administrations imposing a slew of measures to increase the coverage.
Overall, vaccination figures from Vidarbha touched the 81,000 mark from just 2,000 on November 6. The region needs to administer over 1 lakh jabs per day if it has to achieve the state government target of completing first dose for all the eligible population by November 30.
At over 45,000 doses administered during the day, Amravati division did well with Buldhana topping the chart at over 14,000 doses. Nagpur division needs to administer 32,000 jabs per day to meet the target while its achievement was an impressive 36,618.
The Nagpur division has a stock of 6.89 lakh Covishield and 2.15lakh Covaxin doses which are enough for the next 11 and 13 days, respectively.
Nagpur district recorded over 18,000 vaccination, including over 6,000 first dose and 12,000 second dose. On October 30, nearly same number of beneficiaries were jabbed though the percentage of first dose was higher then.
The recent orders to restrict entry of unvaccinated too came into force with officials deployed at Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) and district collector office to check vax certificates of vistiors.
At NMC, the unvaccinated were given the facility of taking the jab on the spot.
Additional municipal commissioner Ram Joshi was satisfied with the performance in the city. “Perhaps, the decisions taken lately have had a positive impact on people. The collector’s order too made a difference. We have been giving jabs to unvaccinated vistiors at the entry poiont at NMC offices for the last two weeks. Vistors are instantly allowed to walk in after taking the jab in case they are unvaccinated,” he said.
Joshi said the NMC is expecting more people to take the first dose. “Still, we are happy that even those having their second dose due for sometime now are getting it at the earliest. There were some people whose second dose was overdue. These people had become laxed as the fear of disease has subsided,” he said.
District Collector Vimala R said that there wasn’t any resistance from government staff. “I am randomly checking the vaccination status of those coming to my office. One was found unvaccinated and was asked to leave. People still believe that vaccines are not proven. This is unscientific thinking. We have seen how death and infection rate have drastically gone down. Even if people are getting infected, the disease remains mild,” she said.
She added that the administration needs to wait for another 10 days to see the actual impact of the fresh measures. “Nagpur has a 80% first dose coverage. Even as people are allowed to freely move around, cases are still under control. We just want people to understand the value of their life,” she said.
Nov 8 Vax data
District
Day’s vax
Nagpur
18,772
Bhandara
1,919
Gondia
3,053
wardha
4,035
Chanda
7,973
Gad
866
Total
36,618
Amravati
7,803
Akola
7,243
Yavatmal
11,053
Washim
4,204
Buldhana
14,763
Total
45,066
Vid
81,684
(As per CoWin portal)