Haryana has been able to administer an all-time high 65.53 lakh doses of COVID-19 vaccine to the people during the month of September.
This included 43.55 lakh first doses and 21.98 lakh second doses of vaccine, said an official spokesman. Giving details, he said that in the month of June 2021, 28.74 lakh doses were administered, 29.58 lakh doses were administered in July while 45.56 lakh were administered in the month of August. The total vaccination in Haryana as September 29 is more than 2.29 crore doses (1,65,99,538 (81 percent first dose) and 63,19,693 (31 percent second dose), the spokesman said.
He further said that near to home COVID vaccination Centres has been started in order to cover elderly and differently abled citizens, who could not move to distantly located vaccination centres. Also, prison inmates, orphanages, old age homes etc. were covered on priority. Haryana has been vaccinating Pregnant Women and lactating mothers as per the Government of India (GOI) guidelines.
Haryana Government has also taken a decision to cover all its employees by creating workplace COVID vaccination centres (CVCs) in each department at State and District level, so as to minimize the risk of spread of COVID 19 among office goers, the spokesman said.
The state is observing a three days special vaccination drive starting from September 30 to October 2 with a target to administer 3 lakh doses each day. On September 30, a total of 2,31,810 doses were administered till the evening, he added.