Shimla, Dec 3
After passing of three days for achieving cent per cent COVID vaccination target by the State health department confirmed of 98 per cent achievement.
Chief Minister Jai Ram Government recently made a big statement about achieving cent per cent vaccination of 53 lakh state people for the Second dose of Covid vaccine stated on Thursday that it could not achieve 100 percent target as on Nov 30. A press statement issued by the state quoting Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur on Thursday accepted that it has achieved 98 pc vaccination for the second dose after three days of crossing the deadline stated by it previously.
The efficacy of double dose being questioned by the health expert in the country owing
to the new alert sounded for highly infectiously and cluster prone Omicron Covid variant
the state inoculation claim stands exposed.
Now keeping with the threat of new strain all the Deputy Commissioner have been trying to give fillip to the inoculation of left out who are not voluntarily coming forward so far or are hesitant to vaccinate. The figures of vaccinations could not be denied as the number of migratory workers who are not bonafide of state were liberally vaccinated by the hill state who are employed in various jobs and projects including private sectors.
Thakur has now directed the health officers to ensure cent percent target of 2nd dose for eligible population must be achieved by 4th of December this year. Thakur was presiding a meeting of senior officers of department to review preparedness for the celebration of vaccination against covid-19.
The state had resolved to vaccinate as many as 53.77 lakh eligible population by Nov 30 , 2021 to get first place in the country however it missed the target by vaccinating about 98 pc for 2nd dose.
The state has large number of young population below 18 yrs are still to be vaccinated however owing to no such programme on the national level. School going teenagers and toddlers are on the verge of Covid-19 as parents are still hesitating to expose their kids in the public and schools amid the third wave of Covid-19 looming large with new Omicron variant of Covid -19.
