Chandigarh: With the infected third wave projected to be hit by August, vaccination drives in Punjab need encouragement because the government so far can fully vaccinate 5.35% of the population.
Minister of Health Punjab Balbir Singh Sidhu said that the state had been able to vaccinate 94,79,351 people where 77.16,433 had received the first dose and 17,62,918 had resolved their vaccination with two doses.
Sidhu shows that Punjab has received a fewer supply vaccines and said that he has asked the central government to accelerate the supply of vaccines so that the state government can maintain the population by vaccinating them with vaccine doses.
He said that at this time was the figure of the person with a vaccine dose in Punjab standing only 5.35%.
Therefore, to avoid the third wave of Covid-19 regardless of health infrastructure, the supply of vaccines needs to be moored by the central government so that the entire population can be borne.
When fear of the third wave of Covid-19 towering is great, he said that the government was directed to handle many cases anticipated from a large number of cases he said added that the health department was fully equipped to deal with cases that might occur more than the infection in the second wave, Pretty health infrastructure such as increased sleep capacity, 9000 oxygen concentrators, 75 oxygen generation PSA has been added in a short time span.
‘Only PB population 5.35% is fully vaccinated’
