Gurgaon: On the fourth day of the covid-19 vaccination drive for teenagers aged between 15 and 17 years, the city gave 15,804 jab, the highest in the state.
This is a leap of 40% from the previous day, when this city wasoculates 11,310 children.
The number of shots has increased for several days because Gurgaon has set the target of the first dose to all targeted populations in January.
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On the first day, 7,527 children have taken shots.
However, on the second day giving the first dose to a total of 7,489 children.
This has increased substantially over the past two days.
After Gurgaon, Kaithal gave a maximum dose in this category on the fourth day (11,568), followed by REWARI (10,454), Faridabad (8,018) and Mahendergarh (8,018).
Meanwhile, Ambala gave the least dose on Thursday at 2,424, followed by Charchhi Dadri (2,435), Panchkula (2,922), Noah (3,299) and Yamunanagar (3.782) .Haryana analyzed a total of 1,40,138 children on Thursday.
“We have cumulatively considering nearly 4.2 lakh shots in this special age group.
A total of 15.4 Lakh children qualify for vaccines in Haryana,” said Rajeev Arora, ACS (Health) .Official said the increase in the number of doses was possible because More session sites.
On Thursday, there were 125 sites, where 86 were in government and private schools, while 39 were in government health care centers.
“All schools and primary health care centers told to record children aged between 15 and 18 years without delay.
All PHCs have shared a list of children who are eligible for vaccination.
Our team also checks with schools on the status of children who will get the vaccine inside This phase.
We also visited the slums to investigate the children who came out of school but were eligible to get shots, “said Virender Yadav, a medical officer.
Personal hospitals in the city also conducted vaccination sessions in the age group 15-17.