A meeting of the Covid vaccination taskforce was held in the Collectorate here on Saturday where Collector SK Mohapatra chaired and reviewed the status of the ongoing inoculation process in the district.
Collector Mohapatra underscored the need for administering the vaccine to 18-44 age group people and second dose of Covid jab to persons who are due for it. Official sources informed that 8,339 people have been waiting to take second dose Covid vaccine in the district. The Collector instructed to give them vaccine under priority. Moreover, Covid jabs would be provided on priority basis to inmates staying in Alipingala and Kujanga sub jails, besides owners of medicine shops, bank employees and health workers and their kin residing in the Jagatsinghpur municipal area. The meeting was attended by CDMO Dr Bijaya Panda, ADMO Dr Pramod Barik, DPM Chakradhar Jena, deputy manager Sukanta Kumar Pradhan and DVLM Partha Sarathi Kar Sharma.