Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has directed officials to conduct the entire proceedings of the COVID-19 vaccination campaign as per the guidelines issued by the Union government. He also stressed on timely completion of all the preparations for the vaccination drive to be held on Friday.
“From February 15, the second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine should be administered to all the health workers who received the first shot in the first phase as per the prescribed timeline,” he said.
The chief minister was on Thursday reviewing the COVID-19 vaccination campaign at a high-level meeting convened at his official residence in the state capital. He was informed that the vaccination work would be done on Thursday and Friday next week at 1,477 booths.
By next week, the COVID-19 vaccination of 26,667 health workers will be completed. A dose of 10.50 lakh vaccine is currently available and in the next three days, an additional 18 lakh doses of the vaccine will be made available to the state government by the Government of India.
Those present in the meeting included Medical Education Minister Suresh Khanna, Chief Secretary RK Tiwari, Infrastructure and Industrial Development Commissioner Alok Tandon, Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Awanish Kumar Awasthi, Director General of Police Hitesh C Awasthi, Additional Chief Secretary (Finance) Sanjeev Mittal, Additional Chief Secretary (Revenue) Renuka Kumar, Additional Chief Secretary (MSME and Information) Navneet Sehgal, Additional Chief Secretary (Medical Education) Dr Rajneesh Dube, Principal Secretary to Chief Minister and Information Sanjay Prasad, Principal Secretary (Animal Husbandry) Bhuvnesh Kumar, Principal Secretary (Health) Alok Kumar, Secretary to Chief Minister Alok Kumar and other senior officials.