Bengaluru: With the Covid-19 vaccination campaign gathered momentum, at least 1.8 crore people in the rural Karnataka have received their first dose on September 5, according to the Department of Health and Family Welfare.
In the percentage of provisions, the rural Karnataka has covered 67% of the population that qualifies with the first dose as against 68% (more than 1.5 crore) in urban areas.
The target population – people over the age of 18 – are 2.2 crores in urban areas and 2.7 crores in rural areas.
According to KV Trilok Chandra, Commissioner, the Department of Health and Family Welfare, the Task Force Gram Panchayat has played a major role in the coverage of Covid vaccination in rural Karnataka.
To discuss a population that was not vaccinated from nearly 90 lakh people in rural areas, the Ministry of Health had planned a door-to-door visit in each village.
However, the rate of the second dose of vaccination has been slow.
Only 58 lakh people got the second dose in urban areas and 53 lakh in rural areas.
The 84-day gap between two doses of covishield vaccine is said to be one of the main reasons for the second dose coverage has not increased.
Priority for the second dose of the Covaxin recipient: Priority officials are given for the second dose of the Covaxin receiver, but the amount is smaller than the covishield.
There is an attempt to reach the first dose beneficiaries because of the second dose, “explained a district health officer.
In many cases, the Cowin portal does not capture data about those who have taken the second dose.
One reason is the submission of two different numbers for two doses; second reason; It is the first dose certificate that is not issued for several beneficiaries.
“In such cases, especially in rural areas, their second dose is recorded as the first with the absence of the first dose evidence,” said an officer.
With the possible error of the data entry, maybe there Incompatibility of the name and telephone number between the recipient data uploaded on the portal, the officer added.