Gurgaon: On the fifth day of the Covid vaccination drive for children between 15 and 17 years, Gurgaon gave 14,655 jabs in 154 session sites, where, 115 was a government and private school and 39 was the government’s primary health care center.
The district conducted 56,783 vaccinations for the age group 15-17 years in five days.
Gurgaon has a total of 1,51,000 tarnished populations for covid vaccination in the age group.
The district wants to provide the first dose for all in this group on January 10, 10:00 Singh, district immunization officers, said, “We work with all schools in the district.
These students were asked to come to the site session by their respective schools.
, Because of the increase in Covid cases, drive vaccination for children witnessed some challenges because parents were reluctant to send their children out.
“Virender Yadav, CMO Gurgaon claimed,” When school does not work now, we face problems in calling children To drive.
We vaccinate everyone who comes to the site session.
“Meanwhile, the Ministry of Health also prepares a dose of booster for health care, frontline workers and senior citizens.
“We are preparing our team to drive a booster dose vaccination.
In all government health care centers throughout Gurgaon, there will be three session sites.
One is for 15-17 age groups, the second will be 18 and above where people can get a dose First and both covid and third vaccinations are for people who are eligible for booster, “Yadav said.