New Delhi: As the first administrative dosage of Jab Anti-Covid has surpassed that the second dose, the center on Saturday requested eight northeastern states along with Uttarakhand and Jammair and Kashmir to focus on increasing the coverage of the second dose, especially the population over 60 years.
In these countries, the second coverage of the “unsatisfactory” vaccine dose in the elderly population above 60 years, the most vulnerable to SARS-COV2 infection and death therefore, Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan was underlined during meetings with them to review vaccination status.
The center advises the country to record doses, days and target the resolution of vaccination training for people over 60 years because the vulnerability of this group for Covid makes this exercise very important.
Meanwhile, the state was also asked to saturate the first dose coverage between the 18-plus population.
A total of 68.33 doses of crore of covid-vaccine were given until Saturday.
Nearly 56% of the 94 crore adult populations have received at least one dose of vaccines, while around 17% of adults (18 years and above) get both doses.
The center asked the state to monitor shares from state-level shops to cold chain points, check the rational distribution and limit the waste of vaccines below 2%.
Countries have been asked to update data about EVIN (Electronic Vaccine Intelligence Network) every day.