Nitin Jain Tribune News Service Ludhiana April 19 Ludhiana which was the first district in the state to launch vaccination at doorstep by holding mobile camps has ranked fourth in the per million Covid inoculation in the state. The data compiled by the Health and Family Welfare Department a copy of which is with The Tribune revealed that Ludhiana touched 136172 per million vaccination coverage till April 14 which was way ahead than the state average of 99887. Pathankot district topped the state with maximum 170262 per million inoculation followed by Gurdaspur 161062 Jalandhar 147448 Mohali 136115 Hoshiarpur 125465 Nawanshahr 115683 Amritsar 103866 Kapurthala 98742 Faridkot 93254 Patiala 92753 Tarn Taran 79098 Ropar 65511 Muktsar 59273 Ferozepur 59061 Barnala 58409 Bathinda 58120 Moga 56035 Fazilka 53338 Fatehgarh Sahib 47492 Sangrur 47333 and Mansa 32441. Ludhiana also stood fourth when it comes to the analysis of total dose coverage per million population. The district had inoculated 136869 persons with both doses of the vaccine which was much higher than the state average of 100200. Pathankot again ranked first in this category with highest coverage of 171202 followed by Gurdaspur 160572 Jalandhar 147406 Mohali 135518 Nawanshahr 115372 Amritsar 104909 Kapurthala 100370 Patiala 94042 Faridkot 94012 Tarn Taran 78909 Ropar 64198 Ferozepur 59723 Bathinda 58599 Barnala 58274 Muktsar 57908 Moga 55456 Fazilka 54151 Sangrur 48058 Fatehgarh Sahib 47948 and Mansa 32077. According to the statistics 167594 healthcare workers have so far been given first dose 78240 second jab. As many as 294025 frontline workers have been administered first vaccine 68644 second shot. As many as 1744745 persons above 45 years have been administered first injection and 68725 inoculated with the second dose. The vaccine inventory till date showed that 183750 doses of Covishield were still available with the state after utilising 27.6 lakh of the total 2943850 doses received so far. Similarly 159400 jabs of Covaxin were still in stock after utilisation of 174680 of the total 334080 doses received till now. 14 fall ill 1 dies after inoculation Of the total 130 cases of after-effects following immunisation (AEFI) reported in the state so far Ludhiana had reported 14 — eight minor and 3 each serious and severe who have since recovered. Among other districts Amritsar reported maximum 35 minor cases followed by Kapurthala 16 minor and one severe Patiala eight minor and four each serious and severe Jalandhar and Tarn Taran six each minor Sangrur five minor two serious and three severe Bathinda two minor two serious and three severe Gurdaspur Hoshiarpur Muktsar Pathankot and Ropar two each minor Mohali one each minor serious and severe Nawanshahr and Barnala one each minor and Ferozepur and Fazilka two each severe cases. However of the total two deaths following immunisation reported in the state till date a 57-year-old male patient had died in Ludhiana. A known case of tuberculosis he was on treatment with one lung destroyed was advised surgery and was having blood in sputum. After getting vaccinated on April 4 at 10 am he developed fever and took treatment at home for three days developed breathlessness and increased blood in sputum from April 12 at 10.30 am when he had a massive bout of blood in sputum. He was hospitalised on April 13 and died on April 14 at 5.39 am. The other such death was reported in Patiala where a 50-year-old man had died on April 11 after he was vaccinated on April 9. He was a known case of asthma.

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