Covid: Both doses must to enter public places in Haryana

Chandigarh, December 22

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The state government today said from January 1, persons who were not fully vaccinated won’t be permitted inside crowded places like malls, cinema halls, restaurants and government offices.

Health and Home Minister Anil Vij announced in the Vidhan Sabha that the decision had been taken because vaccine was the biggest protection against Covid, including new variant Omicron.

Meanwhile, an order was later issued making the second dose of Covid vaccination mandatory from January 1, 2022. The first dose of vaccination has reached 93 per cent but the second dose is lagging behind at 60 per cent as on December 22.

A large number of beneficiaries are due and overdue since long for the second dose of Covid vaccination. Further, new variants of Covid are emerging regularly and recently, Omicron cases are showing an increasing trend in our country, the order said.

Also, neighbouring states likes HP, J&K, Uttarakhand, Delhi and Chandigarh have better second dose coverage than Haryana.

Entry at places like sabzi mandi, bars, restaurants, hotels, grain markets, department stores, liquor and wine shops, malls, shopping complexes, cinema halls, ‘haats’, local markets and other places of public gathering should be allowed only to fully vaccinated (second dose).

Only fully vaccinated people persons would be allowed to travel from bus stand, railway stations, the order said.

Other places of gathering like religious places, petrol and CNG stations, gas cylinder collection centres, sugar mills, milk booths, ration shops should also allow only fully vaccinated people. Both private and public sector banks should allow only fully vaccinated people.

Covid vaccination should be made mandatory for eligible students of colleges/polytechnics who are more than 18 years of age.

Parks, yogshalas, gymnasium and fitness centres should allow only those who have received second dose of Covid vaccination. Truck and auto rickshaw unions should allow only fully vaccinated passengers. Meanwhile, no individual, including government servants, will be allowed to visit government offices without being fully vaccinated. — TNS