Chandigarh may achieve vax target by August 6
Naina Mishra
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, July 18
The city is likely to achieve its Covid vaccination target of above 18 years by August 6 at the ongoing vaccination rate.
As many as 1,66,172 beneficiaries are yet to be jabbed to achieve the 100 per cent vaccination target. The total eligible population of the city for vaccination is 7,09,180 and the UT has vaccinated 5,43,008 beneficiaries with the first dose till date, which accounts for 76.57 per cent of this population.
The UT Administration has set a target of completing the vaccination by August 15. It needs to inoculate 5,730 persons daily to achieve the 100 per cent target by August 15.
However, the present seven-day average is over 8,919 doses. Going by the current rate, the city can achieve the vaccination target in just 19 days by inoculating 1,69,461 more persons. In the last week (between July 10 and July 16), the highest number of 59,734 doses were given ever since the vaccination drive started on January 16.
UT Adviser Dharam Pal said, “Our efforts are finally paying off as we have scaled up the vaccination in the past few days. Earlier, we were vaccinating over 7,000 and now we have escalated it to around 8,900. We will be able to achieve the target earlier than August 15. Our efforts will be to vaccinate each and everyone by August 15.”
To give an impetus to the drive, Chandigarh has also launched an initiative to provide the vaccination facility on the doorstep to all eligible beneficiaries. The UT Health Department, in collaboration with NGOs, has undertaken door-to-door Covid vaccination at Kishangarh and Dadu Majra so far. Around 3,500 houses in Kishangarh were covered in the ongoing drive along with jhuggis today.
A similar door-to-door drive will be undertaken at Dhanas on Monday and Tuesday.
