Kolkata: About 2.5 lakh people in Bengal, including 33,546 people in Kolkata, have taken the dose of their prevention until Sunday night, a week after being launched.
According to sources between 2.5 lakh vaccine receivers, a bulk has become a health worker and a small portion of the population of the elderly.
Requests for the dose of preventive measures for elderly people tend to see a substantial increase in the end of January when most solving nine months gaps after their second dose.
Vaccination for a population of 60 pluses in India began on March 1 last year.
For the gap between two doses is about a month but at first for covishield about one and a half months.
There is a nine-month gap where a person can take a booster dose, which is most qualified at the end of January.
Former Bankers and Jadavpur Resident Dasgupta Dasgupta, which included several of the first batches of the elderly to be fully vaccinated at the end of April 2021, said he was very waiting to take a booster dose.
“My second vaccination dose was carried out on April 25, which means that at the end of this month, my nine-month period will end, and I can take a booster dose,” said Dasgupta (73), who suffered from high sugar and chest disease.
Meanwhile, some elderly people tested positive Covid delaying the dose of their booster dose with the next three months after recovering.
Behala Resident Ruby Banerjee (66) which was fully vaccinated on April 19 was also looking forward to taking a booster dose.
But he was tested positive for Covid earlier this month.
“Because we were among the first few batches to be vaccinated, the process was very smooth at that time.
It was only after a few weeks that the crisis for the vaccine began.
I hope again to be the first to get a booster dose but I contract infection and now I have to Wait.
I hope there is no crisis later, “Banerjee said.
KMC official said the initial response was lukewarm but after the five-day gap was on the rise.
WB: Booster drive is a week old; Demand can rise
