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Agartala, Jan 10 (PTI) The Tripura health department on Monday started administering a third or precautionary dose of COVID-19 vaccine to healthcare and frontline workers and co-morbid people aged 60 years and above, who took their second dose of vaccine nine months ago.
Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb took to social media to appreciate the frontline workers “who played an important role in strengthening our fight against COVID”.
Urging people to maintain COVID-Appropriate Behaviour (CAB), Minister for Information and Cultural Affairs, Sushanta Chowdhury said health experts have predicted that the border state might witness a peak in coronavirus cases in January and February.
He told reporters that in view of a health department report that the state now has an overall 5 per cent positivity rate, while the Agartala Municipal Corporation has a 16.95 per cent positivity rate, people need to take extra precautions to curb the spread of the infection.
The minister said the Tripura government has made all necessary arrangements to tackle any crisis.
“The state government has decided to recruit around 500-700 doctors, nurses, and lab technicians on contract basis to handle the situation,” Chowdhury said.