As many as 1069 people above the age of 60 years turned up at 19 sites across the city to get the first dose of Covid-19 vaccination on Tuesday.
Apart from them, 50 people between the age of 45-60 years with co-morbidities, 697 frontline workers and 126 healthcare workers were inoculated. 117 HCWs also received the second dose of COVID-19 vaccine.
The third phase of COVID-19 vaccination had kicked off on Monday for those above 60 years of age and those between 45-60 years with co-morbidities. A total of 2059 people were inoculated at 19 sites on Tuesday.
Till now, 11209 healthcare workers against the target of 24516, accounting for an achievement rate of 45.72 percent and 9493 (40.25 percent) frontline workers against the target of 23584 have received the first dose of vaccination in the city. A total of 1966 HCWs have got the second dose of the vaccination.
Meanwhile, Chandigarh on Tuesday reported one fatality as 67 fresh COVID-19 cases surfaced here.
The total case tally stood at 21906 in the city while the active cases were 472 till the evening, according to the Chandigarh Health Department’s evening bulletin. The death toll in the city reached 354. 2.58 lakh samples have so far been tested in the city in which 1768 tests were conducted in the last 24 hours.