RAJKOT: Around 70 persons from the transgender community got vaccinated in a special camp set up by the Rajkot Municipal Corporation (RMC) on Thursday.
The camp organized at Navyug school was done in coordination of social security department and Lakshya trust which works for the community.
To dispel hesitancy about Covid vaccination among people at large, the transgender community took the jabs to do away with all misapprehensions.
As their exposure among crowd is the maximum, transgenders were feared to act as super spreaders of the dreaded virus.
Mirade Kachande, a member of the community said, “We are happy that a special camp was organized for our community.
There is no side effect of the vaccine and everybody should participate in the drive.” District social security officer, Mehul Goswami said, “This is also an attempt to join the transgender community with mainstream society as well as they also need the vaccine shield for their own protection against this virus.” The authority also did not insist on ID proof of the beneficiaries while giving the shots.