Jaipur: Only in 10 days, 15-17 years children have increased the drive of Covid vaccination in the state because 50 percent of them have taken photos.
Until Thursday, 49,647 children were vaccinated with cumulative calculations to 23,60,115.
“More than 50 percent of the population in the age group 15-17 years have now received the first dose of Covid vaccine.
In addition, the elderly with comorbidity, health workers (HCWS) and Frontline Workers (FLWS) are also vaccinated in increased quantities,” said Dr.
Raghuraj Singh, Director of the Project (Immunization), Ministry of Health.
The health department official said the center had provided a 46 lakh vaccination target for children in the age group 15-17 years.
Also, the qualified population for the second dose has also dropped from 87 lakh to 65 lakh because more and more people appear for second shots.
In addition, around 24.15 lakh meets the requirements for the dosage of caution, from them, 5.17 lakh is HCWS, 6.48 lakh is FLWS and 12.5 lakh is 60+ with comorbidity.
On Thursday, 18,425 elders received a booster shot, which took the calculation of elders who had taken a booster dose to 1,18,330, which was 8.7 percent of the elderly with comorbidity that qualified for a dose of booster.
Also, 27,203 the booster dose was given to HCW and FLWS, took a number to 1.82,241, which was 15.5% of HCW and FLWS which qualified for a dose of booster.
TNN.