Panaji: Goa received a bad response to the mega vaccination camp both held in all states on Sunday with 7,560 vaccinated people.
Of these, 6,595 took the second dose and 965 their first dose.
On the last mega vaccination drive on October 31, more than 14,000 people were vaccinated and every day around 5,000 people took the first and second jab.
State immunization officer Dr.
Rajendra Borkar said there was still more than one lakh who matured for their second dose, but did not appear.
The response is less than expected on Sunday, he said and connects it to the celebration season.
“We really went to the doorstep of people and we expect more people to come out,” he said.
Before the last camp, message, and phone calls out to hundreds of beneficiaries.
However, since Saturday is Bhau Beej, vaccination staff cannot mobilize beneficiaries.
On November 14, the Ministry of Health has planned another Mega vaccination camp.
The Ministry of Health of the Union has recently asked all states to make district administration to mobilize people and also bind to influential people and religious leaders to help the health department to mobilize people.
With only a week to leave, the state is very unlikely to reach 100% coverage of the second dose for all populations that qualify by the November 15 deadline announced by the Head of the Sawant Pramod Minister.
Borkar said that currently 110% of the qualified Goa population has received their first dose while 80.6% has received a vaccine dose.
Until the date, 9.4 lakh people doubled and only more than 3% were partially vaccinated.