Over 7 lakh jabbed in six days in Vidarbha

Nagpur: Covid vaccination graph of all the 11 districts in Vidarbha is going up. Following tough measures by administrations, districts having low vaccination percentage are now going full steam with the drive.
While some districts are vaccinating more than their daily targets and estimates, others have also reported good numbers, as per data on the Co-Win system.
Over 7 lakh have been inoculated in a span of just six days from November 8 to 13 in Vidarbha. The region on Saturday recorded a tremendous jump in vaccination with 1.56lakh taking the jab, which is twice the average daily requirement of 75,000 to meet the November 30 deadline of covering maximum eligible beneficiaries with at least 1st dose.
Amravati division recorded 4.4 lakh vaccination while Nagpur saw 2.6 lakh people getting vaccinated in this period.
As on November 7, the first dose backlog of Vidarbha stood at 57 lakh vaccination which requires at least 40 days to meet the target. As the pace picked up, the time required can easily come down to 30 days if same figures are achieved on a daily basis.
Districts administration have taken a slew of measures such as making vaccination compulsory for entry in government offices, using public transport, availing benefits of schemes etc. Some have warned of discontinuing free first dose while others have tried to lure people with electronic gifts.
Amravati division, which is having bulk of unvaccinated eligible population, has been achieving new records after passage of each day. It started with the week at 81,000 jabs and ended on even higher note at 1.56 lakh jabs.
Amravati, Buldhana and Akola have been given an average daily target of 15,000 jabs each. On Saturday, Buldhana jabbed 40,000, probably one of its best ever achievement. Amravati too scaled up to 24,000 jabs.
Nagpur district alone covered 29,000 more beneficiaries in a day while rest of the districts in this division returned good numbers as per their backlog.
TOI had reported that Nagpur division has backlog of 17 lakh. It needs 32,000 jabs per day to vaccinate the remaining 19% targeted beneficiaries with first dose by November 30 deadline.
Over 70% of unvaccinated population is from Amravati, Yavatmal and Buldhana.
Over 9 lakh are yet to receive their first dose in Amravati while unvaccinated beneficiaries totaling over 5 lakh belong to Akola. Amravati was the epicenter of second wave. Alleged official apathy had let to the rapid spread of Covid-19 from February onwards in the division. The administration now seems to have been successful in convincing people to get jabbed.