PRAYAGRAJ: In a booster shot for the city’s Covid vaccination drive, the health department has drawn a cluster plan to cover the maximum people in 80 wards (urban) and 20 blocks (rural) from July 1.
Additional chief medical officer and nodal officer (National Health Mission) Dr Satyendra Rai told TOI, the entire district has been divided into 216 clusters, including 200 in rural and 16 in urban areas, where 319 vaccination teams would be deployed.
In urban areas, 10 vaccination teams would cover 16 clusters (80 wards).
The teams would administer Covid 19 vaccine to at least 1,250 recipients per day in a single cluster.
As many as 200 clusters have been identified in 20 blocks of rural areas and over 300 teams would be pressed into service for the vaccination campaign.
Moreover, joint teams of health, administration and education department have already engaged mobilisation teams to promote vaccination in villages and brief locals about the details of vaccination centres and timing.
The mobilisation teams comprise of ANM/ASHA workers, pradhan, aganwadi workers, panchayat secretaries and primary teachers.
The department aims to cover all the clusters on or before July 31.
To cover rural areas and maximum crowd of recipients, spots like panchayat bhawan, primary schools and gram sabha have been converted into vaccination sites after calculating the number of eligible recipients.
Quick response teams and cluster response teams have also been deployed to deal with any untoward incident.
As many as 8,29,628 shots were administered to recipients of all age groups, including those above 45 years, in the district till June 27.
While 6,95,727 beneficiaries had taken the first dose, a total of 1,33,901 recipients had also received the second shot.