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District Collector V Vinay Chand asked all the medical officers in the Visakhapatnam district to expedite the vaccination process.
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District Collector V Vinay Chand asked all the medical officers in the Visakhapatnam district to expedite the vaccination process.
On Monday, the Collector in a meeting discussed with the paramedics on vaccination, isolation kits, Covid cases, Arogyasree implementation in hospitals, and other issues.
Addressing the nation, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday announced a centralized vaccine policy to be implemented in the next two weeks.
It is said that with the increase in vaccine supply in the country, from June 21, all the citizens above 18 years of age can get free vaccines.
The Centre will buy 75 percent of the vaccine supply and provide free Vaccination.
As of June 7, a total of 10,50,663 individuals got vaccinated.
These include 2,14,786 individuals above 60 years, 3,96,641 between 45-60 and 2,10,559 between 18-44 years of age.
Apart from amping up the vaccination process in Visakhapatnam, the Collector told the District Health Officer (DM&HO), Suryanarayana to conduct 10,000 Covid tests in a day and send test samples within 24 hours to the lab.
Officials were told to identify zones that have more than 20 percent positive cases.
Also, the number of Covid cases reported at private hospitals was reported to the district officials every day.