JAIPUR: Long queues were seen at vaccination centres in Jaipur district on Friday as a record 1.34 lakh doses of vaccines were administered to people belonging to the 18-44 age group, as part of the one-day special campaign for vaccination.
In all, 1.35 lakh doses of vaccines were administered in Jaipur on Friday (including all categories).
This was the record vaccination by any district per day in Rajasthan.
Even as it was believed that it was the highest (per day vaccination) among all districts in the country, this fact could not be verified on Friday.
On Friday, 4.98 lakh doses of vaccines were administered in Rajasthan, which was the second highest per day in the state.
The highest number of doses administered so far in the state was 5.81 lakh per day (on April 7).
“In all, 1.34 lakh doses of vaccines were administered on Friday for those belonging to 18+ category.
All vaccinations in the district were done through on-the-spot registration.
We had a target to vaccinate 1 lakh people,” said chief medical and health officer (CMHO-I) Dr Narottam Sharma.
District vaccination nodal officer and additional district collector (IV) Ashok Kumar visited the vaccination centres and oversaw the arrangements at these centres.
There were long queues at many vaccination centres even after 4.30 pm.
More than 1.18 lakh people were vaccinated till 5.30 pm, read a statement issued by Jaipur district administration.
However, in some vaccination centres people had to return home without getting inoculated as vaccines had already exhausted by 3.30-4pm.
Some visited 3-4 centres, but couldn’t get themselves vaccinated.
“We couldn’t get ourselves vaccinated as vaccines have finished at this centre.
We got to know about on-the-spot vaccination a little while ago, that’s why we didn’t come in the morning,” said Shubham, who went to a dispensary at Ward No 56 near Tonk Phatak to get himself vaccinated.
He came to the centre along with his mother and sister.
According to one of the officials, 250 doses were allocated to this dispensary.
Graphics Vaccination in Jaipur For 18+ category Jaipur 1: 65,849 Jaipur 2: 68,507 Total: 1.34 lakh Overall vaccination in Jaipur: 1.35 lakh (including all categories)