Covid vax drive for 15 plus starts today

Our Correspondent

UNA, JANUARY 2

About 33,400 children in the 15 to 18 age group will be administered the first jab against Covid in Una district from tomorrow.

Deputy Commissioner Raghav Sharma said they would be administered Covaxin. Six teams have been constituted in each subdivision of the district to undertake the task. In the first phase, vaccination will be done at the school level, he said, adding that 24,000 students from government schools and about 9,400 studying in private schools would be covered.

The DC said vaccination drive would be conducted at 286 locations, which include 137 senior secondary schools, 46 high schools, two central schools and Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya and 100 private schools in the district. He said all children born between January 1, 2004, and December 31, 2007, inclusive of both dates were eligible to get the jabs.