Chhattisgarh residents must pro-actively participate in the vaccination drive to prevent a third wave of Covid-19, the government said on Tuesday.
There is a need to create awareness on this issue among the people, Harsha Puranik, Joint Director (PR), told the media.
With enough stock of vaccine doses available, the need of the hour is to speed up the vaccination drive with active participation of the citizens, Puranik said.
On Monday, 91,172 vaccine doses were administered at 2,563 centres across the state.
Chhattisgarh has registered a 1.2 percent positivity rate with 496 positive cases reported against 39,506 samples tested, she added.
The number of Black Fungus cases has reached 340. A total of 57 patients have been discharged and 199 have been operated on. The disease has killed 29 people and 21 have died due to comorbidities.