Ludhiana district achieves 100% coverage of eligible population with 1st Covid jab

Nitin Jain

Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, January 1

The New Year ushered in another milestone in Ludhiana, which achieved 100 per cent coverage of the eligible population with the first jab of Covid vaccines here on Saturday, the administration has confirmed.

DC SPEAK

With the sudden surge in Covid cases and Omicron variant threat looming large, the vaccination centres have started witnessing a rush of beneficiaries. I congratulate the health staffers for achieving 100 per cent coverage of the first dose, which is a matter of pride for the district, but our aim is to inoculate the entire eligible population above 18 years of age with both doses of Covid vaccine. Varinder Kumar Sharma, Deputy Commissioner

Against the target population of 26.32 lakh, the state’s biggest and largest district, in terms of area and population, vaccinated 26,35,480 persons above 18 years of age with a single shot of Covishield or Covaxin, the official figures have revealed.

The milestone was achieved by administering 5,262 first doses of Covid vaccine, which surpassed the 100 per cent coverage mark to reach 100.13 per cent, in the district on Saturday.

However, achieving a similar breakthrough in complete vaccination of the district’s entire population above 18 years of age seems a distant dream as the coverage of both doses remained even below 50 per cent on Saturday.

With 7,313 second shots administered on Saturday, as many as 13,00,433 persons got fully vaccinated in the district, which is 49.34 per cent of the target population of 26.32 lakh.

Overall Ludhiana district has administered 39,35,913 Covid vaccine shots so far, which included 12,575 jabs on Saturday.

The breakdown of the inoculation figures showed that 35,32,808 jabs were given at the government facilities, 2,81,779 at private institutions and 1,21,326 at the industrial establishments in the district.

The category-wise breakdown of vaccination done so far revealed that 40,253 healthcare workers were given first dose, 20,555 second dose, 1,36,181 frontline workers first dose, 45,407 second dose, 12,36,372 persons between 18 and 44 years of age with Covishield first dose, 5,97,192 with Covishield second dose, 2,56,554 aged 18 to 44 years with Covaxin first dose, 1,16,049 with Covaxin second dose, 6,42,781 population between 45 and 60 years of age with first dose, 3,27,013 second dose, 3,23,339 persons above 60 years of age with first dose and 1,94,257 population above 60 years of age has been inoculated with the second dose of Covid vaccine in the district so far.

Inoculation so far

• First dose: 26,35,480 (100.13%)
• Second dose: 13,00,433 (49.34%)
• Doses given on Saturday: 12,575
• Total doses: 39,35,913
• Target population: 26,32,000

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