Jaipur reported the lowest 41% achievement of the target of vaccinating healthcare workers, while Sikar reported 100.5% achievement of the target, which is the highest in the state.
Jaipur reported the lowest 41% achievement of the target of vaccinating healthcare workers, while Sikar reported 100.5% achievement of the target, which is the highest in the state.
Scaling up the COVID vaccination drive in the state, the health department organized 408 vaccination sites on Sunday targeting to vaccinate 38,202 healthcare workers. By the end of the day, the health department managed to achieve 67% by administering Covid-19 jab to 26,255 healthcare workers.
The number of sites for Covaxin, an indigenous vaccine manufactured by Bharat Biotech, has also been increased from six to 11, all sites are in Jaipur. The achievement of the target for Covaxin was 39% by vaccinating 434 healthcare workers against the target of 1116. While the achievement of the target for Covishield from Serum Institute of India, was 68% as 25,821 healthcare workers across the state received the Covishield jab against the target of 38,202.
After getting administered Covishield, 12 healthcare workers complained of adverse events following immunization, while on such adverse event was reported post-Covaxin immunization.
While the health department is targeting to administer the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine to all 4.5 lakh registered healthcare workers by January 31, the number of vaccination sites have increased across the state. “We are increasing the number of vaccination sites daily to administer vaccines to 4.5 lakh healthcare workers as soon as possible following the vaccination guidelines issued by the Centre,” said a senior health department official.
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