Haryana Health Minister Anil Vij on Friday announced that the houses in the state where all the members have received both doses of COVID-19 vaccines, their homes will be called "Green Star Houses" to encourage others to get the vaccine.
Vij also said that the employees of the Department who have done good work during the period of Covid-19 will be honoured at the state level and at the district level. Similarly, all the personnel working in all the 92 municipalities of the state will be vaccinated, the Minister said while presiding over a review meeting on various health related activities with the officials of the Health Department.
It was informed in the meeting that there are 40 COVID testing laboratories in the state, out of which 19 are government and 21 private laboratories and about 1.30 lakh samples are being tested per day by these laboratories.
The Minister was apprised that till September 23, a total of 2,17,79,655 beneficiaries have been vaccinated in the state, in which 1,59,86,337 have been given the first dose, 57,93,318 have been given the second dose.
In addition, 99 percent of the first dose and 93 percent of the second dose have been administered to health care workers. Similarly, 103 percent of the first dose and 99 percent of the second dose have been applied to the frontline workers.