Bengaluru: Fourteen districts in Karnataka have been inoculating more adult populations with the second dose of Covid-19 vaccines rather than the country’s average coverage of 89%, data shows.
Vijayapura sustains a list of districts with 101% coverage, followed by a rural district of Bengaluru at 100%, as on Saturday (February 5).
Six districts – Yadgir, Tumakuru, Bidar, Haveri, Koppal and Davanagere – equivalent to the average state.
In the Bengaluru of urban districts, including the BBMP region, which has an estimated population of more than 1 crore, 87.
4 Lash people over 18 years have been given two doses and coverage is 86%, only lacks the average state.
Kodagu, one of the first districts to achieve 100% vaccination of the first dose, has seen the coverage of 98% of the second dose.
Kalaburagi has a second dose coverage of 82%, while Raichur is only a little better at 83%.
Dr.
Arundhathi Chandrasekhar, Mission Director, National Health Mission, Karnataka, said officials in the district had many efforts and this had also pushed the country average.
Doubts are also not a problem with the vaccination center flooded by people who are looking for shots after Omicron triggered a third wave of infection that began at the end of December.
But now, the Ministry of Health officials are afraid of people to encourage vaccination – especially the second dose – to the rear burner since Covid-19 cases declined rapidly in most countries.
To fight this, the State Health Department, since November 3, has conducted campaigns such as door-to-door surveys to vaccinate everyone who qualifies with both doses from November 3.
Officials involved in this survey are armed with a list that is not vaccinated and partially.
people.
“There are certain technical challenges related to the second dose coverage that is being seen,” Recognizing Dr.
Arundhathi.
Vax coverage in 14 districts is higher than the average k’Taka
