Bengaluru: Fourteen districts in Karnataka have been inoculating more adult populations with the second dose of Covid-19 vaccines rather than the country’s average coverage of 89%, data shows.
Vijayapura sustains a list of districts with 101% coverage, followed by a rural district of Bengaluru at 100%, as on Saturday (February 5).
Six districts – Yadgir, Tumakuru, Bidar, Haveri, Koppal and Davanagere – equivalent to the average state.
In the Bengaluru of urban districts, including the BBMP region, which has an estimated population of more than 1 crore, 87.
4 Lash people over 18 years have been given two doses and coverage is 86%, only lacks the average state.
Kodagu, one of the first districts to achieve 100% vaccination of the first dose, has seen the coverage of 98% of the second dose.
Kalaburagi has a second dose coverage of 82%, while Raichur is only a little better at 83%.
Dr.
Arundhathi Chandrasekhar, Mission Director, National Health Mission, Karnataka, said officials in the district had many efforts and this had also pushed the country average.
Doubts are also not a problem with the vaccination center flooded by people who are looking for shots after Omicron triggered a third wave of infection that began at the end of December.
But now, the Ministry of Health officials are afraid of people to encourage vaccination – especially the second dose – to the rear burner since Covid-19 cases declined rapidly in most countries.
To fight this, the State Health Department, since November 3, has conducted campaigns such as door-to-door surveys to vaccinate everyone who qualifies with both doses from November 3.
Officials involved in this survey are armed with a list that is not vaccinated and partially.
people.
“There are certain technical challenges related to the second dose coverage that is being seen,” Recognizing Dr.
Arundhathi.