Punjab Government on Tuesday stated that it has vaccinated a total of 4,27,329 persons, falling the age group of 18 to 44 years, “without wasting any dose”. Earlier, the state reported the vaccine wastage of more than four percent at the time when the entire country was facing vaccines shortage.
“On Tuesday, a total of 16,932 persons, in the age group of 18-44 years, have been vaccinated, thus bringing the total number of vaccinated people in this group to 4,27,329. All of them have been administered Covishield vaccine and the entire target was met by the State Government for this group without wasting any dose,” said the State Nodal Officer for vaccination Vikas Garg.
Garg said that the priority groups in the age group of 18-44 years were formed by the State Government and these were vaccinated vigorously. The State Government had received a total of 4.29 lakh doses for this age group, he added. Giving details of vaccination recipients on Tuesday, the State Nodal Officer said that 3,328 people with co-morbidities, 3,326 registered construction workers and their families, 7,463 unregistered construction workers and their families, 2,485 families of health workers, and 330 jail inmates have been vaccinated.
Till date, total 7,07,190 persons — including healthcare workers, frontline workers, and those above 45 years — have received the second dose of vaccine; while the first dose have been received by 36,07,744 persons till date.
4798 CASES, 176 DEATHS IN PUNJAB
Punjab on Tuesday recorded 4798 fresh cases of the novel coronavirus at the positivity rate of 7.28 percent besides 176 related casualties, pushing the state’s COVID-19 tally to 5,48,231 and death toll to 13,642 registering a case fatality rate (CFR) of 2.49 percent.
Witnessing a visible dip in daily caseload and positivity rate, the state’s active cases have also come down to 9.69 percent from 17.10 percent (79963) recorded on May 12, and 15.40 percent (58229) on May 1. At the same time, the recovery rate has also improved to 87.82 percent from 82.17 percent on May 1, and 80.52 percent on May 12.
Maximum 19 of Tuesday’s fatalities were reported from Ludhiana, followed by 17 from Sangrur, 16 from Amritsar, 14 from Bathinda, 13 from Patiala, 12 from Jalandhar, among others. Twelve of the total 22 districts have registered higher positivity rate than that of the state, with the highest 14.26 percent reported from Barnala which recorded 81 fresh cases in the past 24 hours. Maximum cases were reported from Jalandhar which recorded 536 cases at the positivity rate of 8.86 percent.
Besides, Ludhiana reported 461 cases (at positivity rate of 4.14 percent), SAS Nagar (Mohali) 376 cases (11.47 percent), Amritsar 352 (9.90 percent), Bathinda 344 (12.50 percent), Fazilka 334 (11.88 percent), Muktsar 300 (10.05 percent), Patiala 275 (6.63 percent), Pathankot 243 (11.18 percent), Gurdaspur 233 (8.44 percent), Hoshiarpur 229 (5.75 percent), among others.