Gurgaon: The district health department has mapped villages that have several Covid-19 cases today.
People in these villages will be vaccinated aggressively to curb the spread of the virus if the third wave touches the region.
The Ministry of Health has chosen 100 villages in Gurgaon where his team will provide 100% of the population that meets their first dose requirements.
They have been chosen based on the number of reported Covid cases and the number of recipients who qualify.
On Friday, five Gurgaon villages gave at least one dose in all of their qualified populations for the Covid-19 vaccine.
Two other villages had previously reached 100% first dose target.
“Of the 100 villages, as many as 50 villages have 1,000 or not meet the recipient’s requirements, while the rest reported less than 50 cases of Covid.
We have not improved the timeline for these villages.
We aim to vaccinate the entire gurgaon population that is projected based on the 2011 census with the 2011 census with At least one dose on August 15, “said Dr.
Virender Yadav, Chief Medical Officer, Gurgaon.
About how they plan to reach this target, he said: “Our Asha workers have visited these villages and have conducted a survey.
Now, we will establish camps in community centers so that people can reach these sites easily to get Vaccination.
Because the vaccine supply is limited, we must manage the site with a fixed number of doses.
“On Friday, Aklimpur, Hasanpur, Khuntpuri, Meako and Nurpur reached 100% first dose target.
Hamirpur and Khetawas Village have given at least one dose to all recipients who qualify.
With this, seven villages in Gurgaon have visited a population that qualifies with the first dose.
Hasanpur Sarpanch Virender Singh said he and his team visited every house in the village in the last 15 days to motivate people to be vaccinated.
“We went from home to home to overcome all worries about vaccines.
Advanced people to be inoculated on Friday and it is important that we make everyone who meets the requirements inoculated before other waves hit us,” he said.
Meanwhile, Gurgaon will prepare 41 government session sites on Saturday.
Only two sites will provide the first dose, while the rest only has a slot only for the second dose recipient.
On Friday, 4,935 people in the age group 18-44 and 2,265 in the 45-plus category were vaccinated in the city.
A total of 196 health staff and 340 frontline workers also took shots.
In all, 20,694 Jab – 9,796 the first dose and 10,898 second dose – given on Friday, where 14,315 was given on the government session site.
5 new cases, no Gurgaon death reported five new Covid-19 cases on Friday, taking cooperatives to 1,80,781.
The city has 70 current active cases and the level of participants are at 0.1%.
No Covid deaths reported on that day.
Nine patients also recovered from the virus on Friday, taking the total recovery amount to 1,79,792.
The recovery rate is at 99.6%.
As many as 60 patients were in a house isolation while 10 were in the hospital.