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Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has said that in view of students and sportsmen from Uttar Pradesh going abroad, special vaccination booths should be set up in all the district hospitals.
“Special booths should be set up in all the district hospitals for the vaccination of people going abroad for studies, jobs or sports competitions from the state,” the chief minister said during a Covid review meeting held here on Wednesday.
Yogi said that action should be taken in a planned and effective manner for vaccination of the maximum number of people across the state. Special attention should be given to vaccination in rural areas, he said.
“Awareness campaigns should be conducted to motivate rural people for vaccination. Awareness about vaccination should be spread in all gram panchayats through posters and pamphlets. Photos of people who have taken vaccine jabs should also be put in the posters to inspire the villagers,” he said.
The chief minister was apprised that a comprehensive action plan has been prepared regarding vaccination in rural areas of the state. A large number of vaccinators have been trained for the inoculation systematically and smoothly.
In a recent achievement, Uttar Pradesh crossed the milestone of administering 2.30 crore cumulative COVID-19 vaccine doses. UP has outnumbered many states in terms of vaccination. So far, the state has administered as many as 2,39,49,661 cumulative doses, the CM said.
Meanwhile, the positivity rate came down to 0.1 per cent in Uttar Pradesh as 310 fresh COVID-19 cases came up in the last 24 hours. The active cases also went below the 300-mark in all the districts barring Lucknow.
UP has also been registering a steep decline in the active cases as the figure has dropped from a high of 3,10,783 in April to 6,496 now, which is a remarkable reduction by 98 per cent. As many as 2,86,396 samples were tested in the last 24 hours, pushing the total number of tests to 5,41,45,947 so far.
In a significant development, 14 more oxygen producing plants have become functional in the last 24 hours, making the state self-reliant in oxygen generation.
“As many as 100 of the 436 sanctioned oxygen plants have already been established and are functional while the work for the rest is going on in the state,” a government spokesman said.