Uttar Pradesh’s (UP) Ghaziabad district on Tuesday received first batch of ‘Covaxin’. The Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Dr NK Gupta said that a total of 14,570 doses have been received in the first batch.
The second consignment of Covaxin is expected to arrive by 18 February. The Covaxin will be given to frontline workers and vaccination will be held at 35 centers on Thursday and Friday.
“The target is to vaccinate over 8,000 frontline workers on both these days. Apart from this, the district currently has 28,000 doses of the covishield vaccine. Covishield will be given to health workers,” said Dr Gupta.
“The mop-up Round will be held on 15 February for the health workers right now and in addition to that the second dose of health workers will also start from the same day,” he said.
The CMO said that Covid-19 vaccination of frontline workers was started on February 5 across the State including the district. In the first round, only 10 percent of frontline workers were targeted to be vaccinated.
Around 19,000 frontline workers have been identified in the district. Accordingly, a total of 1,803 people were targeted to be vaccinated on 5 February. Only 1,037 of them could be vaccinated.