Nitin Jain Tribune News Service Ludhiana April 9 Ludhiana which was among the high-burden 11 districts and once again becoming the hotspot of Covid in the state has ranked fourth in the ongoing Covid vaccination drive in the state. The district-wise figures compiled by the Health and Family Welfare Department on the basis of the data for first dose per million as on April 2 Ludhiana vaccinated 73003 beneficiaries which was much higher than the state average of 53400 shots. Gurdaspur topped the state with maximum 93810 inoculation followed by Mohali 80699 Hoshiarpur 76904 Jalandhar 72037 Pathankot 69857 Amritsar 61843 Nawanshahr 52461 Faridkot 48938 Patiala 43566 Kapurthala 41672 Tarn Taran 38472 Ropar 34333 Bathinda 34248 Ferozepur 33735 Barnala 31133 Fazilka 27334 Muktsar 26056 Moga 25953 Fatehgarh Sahib 25462 Sangrur 20411 and Mansa 17920. Following the review of the vaccination drive by Chief Secretary Vini Mahajan on April 3 the inoculation campaign has been extended to all seven days at the health centres besides holding mobile camps to give shots to the eligible persons at their doorstep. The state-wide vaccination trends showed that a record 252760 beneficiaries were vaccinated including 238772 first doses and 13988 second jabs during a week between March 27 and April 2 taking the total inoculation figure to 1036256 including 922838 first shots and 113418 second doses. The figures of last 30 days revealed that the inoculation coverage which was around 10000 daily on March 3 went up to almost 70000 per day on April 1. The category-wise data showed that 53 per cent (144997 of the total registered 271109) healthcare workers were given first dose while 64 per cent (65682 of the total 102739 vaccinated with first dose) received the second jab in the state till April 2. A whopping 91 per cent (220897 of the total registered 241992) frontline workers got their first shot while 48 per cent (44851 of the total registered 93304) were administered the second dose. Besides 470462 citizens among the eligible age groups were also vaccinated in the state till last Friday. In order to ramp up the vaccination drive the state government has decided not to reserve the vaccine for the second dose while fixing the weekly target of more than 16 lakh jabs for the next two weeks. While two days — Tuesday and Friday — every week will be observed as mega vaccination days government hospitals in districts and subdivisions and community health centres will serve as vaccination centres for all seven days. “We have fixed minimum district-wise vaccination targets to be achieved by every district per week and accordingly the state aims to inoculate 1638000 beneficiaries every week. Besides mobile vaccination camps the district hospitals and medical colleges in the state were holding two shifts daily from 8 am to 2 pm and 1 pm to 7 pm to achieve maximum coverage of the eligible beneficiaries” said Hussan Lal Principal Health Secretary.

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