CALANGUTE: With entertainment venues such as nightclubs and casinos are closed and water sports are discriminated due to pandemic restrictions, a number of tourists in the Calangute-Candolim beach belt use their holidays to make themselves vaccinated with Covid-19 instead.
Medical officers at the Candolim Primary Health Center, Dr.
Roshan Nazareth, confirmed this.
“We witnessed a lot of tourists who visited the vaccination center,” he said.
Nikhil Pillai, Delhi-based IT specialist who took his first shot late last month, said he visited Goa two-three times a year because he had a vacation home in Nagoa, Bardez.
“Because of the pandemic, I worked from home.
I was infected with Covid at the end of April while in Delhi and was told that I had to wait 90 days to vaccinate.
As I planned to travel to Goa around that time, I thought it would be an idea Good for vaccinated here, “he said.
Like Pillai, Pooja Biltoria from Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, also decided to take his first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine in Candolim, recently.
“Travel and work from home, I’m looking for a peaceful place where I can continue to work.
It is an additional advantage that I can vaccinate in Goa,” he said.
Medical Officer Ayush Dr.
Suvira Bandekar, who is responsible for the Covid-19 vaccination center was established in a house along Jalan Candolim-Sinquerim, said many tourists visit the center to ask if they can get Jab.
“It is likely that they cannot be easily vaccinated in their state because of high demand and long queues,” he said.
Interestingly, some foreign tourists, who are trapped in Goa because the suspension of regular international flights induced by Covid also chose to be vaccinated in a state of sunlight.
“I am very happy with the vaccinated experience in Goa.
This is a fast, professional, well-organized procedure available to everyone who looks for it,” Katch said, a tourist from Ukraine.
“In my country, I have to wait longer and vaccines are not available in stock.” Anticipating the increase in tourist arrivals in the near future if the government further relaxes the limit of Covid, hospitality business people and resort owners have also begun to call their non-Goan staff back to the country.
“Many staff like it arrived at the train station from their state and went straight to the vaccination center,” said Nazareth.
“Goa allows anyone who works in the tourism industry to take vaccines.
That’s why I came here,” said Pallabh Mondal from West Bengal, said.
Mondal, who returned to Goa recently and worked at a restaurant in Candolim, said he hoped to stay here until the end of the upcoming season.
“We have to work by maintaining a Covid protocol,” he said.
However, these were the early days, said Sarpanch Calangute and Hoteler Shawn Martins.
“Staff back, but slowly.”