Punjab Government has set up 1965 Government and 296 private vaccination centres across the State, covering both urban and rural areas, with the combined capacity to give 2,75,675 jabs every day.
“Vaccination drive against Covid-19 is being carried out across the State in full swing,” said the state Health and Family Welfare Minister Balbir Singh Sidhu on Friday.
The Minister said that with an aim to restrict the increasing graph of coronavirus cases in the State, the Health Department is now aiming to get the maximum number of people vaccinated for this virus following which a special awareness drive is being conducted in the rural areas of State.
“After removing the condition of co-morbidities for above 45 years persons, the overwhelming response has been received from all districts for the vaccination,” he said.An intensified awareness campaign was launched by the Health and Family Welfare Department to aware people about the precautions and guidelines issued to control the spread of COVID-19, he said adding that however, the campaign is now moving a step ahead to motivate people to get vaccinated to create immunity against the virus.Lauding the concerted efforts being made by the team of the Health Department, Ludhiana, Sidhu said that our teams have been visiting Health and Wellness Centres at villages where general public and staff members are being sensitized regarding COVID vaccination and myths relating to the vaccine were busted and their queries were answered to speed up the drive.Referring to misconceptions about vaccine, Sidhu said that it is utterly a false claim and people should understand that vaccination is made available to public after various tests and trials and it is fully safe for people. “That’s why, this awareness drive specifically targeted the rural areas as they are the one who are not adequately aware about this largest vaccination drive and they are being provided the facility by the government to get vaccinated in the centers near to them and they should get advantage of this facility and get vaccinated,” he said.