Precaution dose to be administered to polling staff, says DC

Jalandhar, January 15

In pursuance of guidelines issued by the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare regarding covid vaccination, the Deputy Commissioner Ghanshyam Thori on Saturday said that all the staff deployed for polling in the district would be vaccinated with precaution dose irrespective of nine months gap.

Taking part into the video conference chaired by the Principal Secretary (Health) Raj Kamal Chaudhary, the Deputy Commissioner said that the vaccination drive was going on at all sessions sites, where a daily nearly 18,000 doses were given and directions had also been issued to enhance the daily vaccination to 20,000. He also pointed out that the precaution dose of Covid-19 vaccine would be administered to all the officials/staff being deployed on election duty even if the nine month period after the second dose vaccination is not over. He said that special sessions would also be planned to ensure that all beneficiaries should be covered under this initiative.

Apprising the PS (Health), Ghanshyam Thori said total 18,315 staff deployed on election duty, of which 17733 had already given both doses. Besides this, the of total 16,20,680 eligible beneficiaries, 95.75 percent and 66.73 percent beneficiaries had received first and second doses respectively. —