AHMEDABAD: With citizens having lowered their guard when it comes adhering to preventive measures like wearing masks and physical distancing, the civic body is concentrating its energies on scaling up the vaccination drive ahead of the third wave.
The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) claims that till now they have vaccinated 42.5% of 18-44 year population in the city and nearly 78% of the elderly population above 45 years.
Mobile vaccination units are being deployed to residential societies to encourage vaccination drive “Our focus will be to enhance vaccination drive in slums, chawls and certain localities in the posh south and central zones of the city where the acceptance of vaccination has been low owing to myths and misconceptions,” said a senior AMC official.
He added, “There are more than 26 lakh individuals in the city who are in the 18-44 age group and some 15.8 lakh in the above 45 years age group.” In all some 28.18 lakh people have received at least one dose of the vaccine in the city.
“The number of individuals being vaccinated in a day has dropped to 40,000 owing to a slight vaccine shortage.
we plan to do more than 85,000 vaccinations a day.
But we will achieve the daily target once the vaccine supply chain strengthens,” claimed a senior AMC official.
the civic body has even approached local councillors, religious and community leaders to motivate youngsters to organise and participate in the vaccination drive.
“The vaccine supply will strengthen in the next three to four days,” said the AMC official.