Gujarat: Covid-19 Vaccination for 18-45 age group begins in 10 districts
People in the age group of 18 to 45 queued up outdoors the inoculation centres in 10 districts of Gujarat, the place the COVID-19 vaccination drive for this class started on Saturday. The drive started in Ahmedabad, Surat, Vadodara, Rajkot, Bhavnagar, Jamnagar, Kutch, Mehsana, Bharuch and Gandhinagar districts, that are most affected most by the pandemic, officers mentioned.
The drive was launched in restricted variety of districts as Gujarat has obtained solely three lakh doses from the vaccine producers as towards the order of two.5 crore doses positioned by the state authorities, they mentioned.
Authorities ensured that social distancing is maintained as individuals in this age group began arriving on the centres in 10 districts for free vaccination. A beneficiary at a centre in Ahmedabad mentioned, “Vaccination is the only way to overcome coronavirus pandemic. I would like to appeal to the people to get themselves vaccinated at the earliest.”
Confusion prevailed at some centres as individuals arrived in massive numbers.
“This chaos is because of people and not the system. Considering the pandemic situation, people are eager to get themselves vaccinated. Vaccination is important to control the pandemic…People should not spread rumours and get vaccinated at the earliest,” one other beneficiary mentioned.
Only these individuals who had registered themselves on the CoWIN portal have been allowed entry and given a token on the centre on the premise of SMS obtained by them specifying the date, place and time for vaccination, officers mentioned.
Ahmedabad native authorities mentioned they’ve arrange 76 vaccination centres at authorities and personal faculties, neighborhood halls, temple premises, amongst othes, for the train. Rajkot well being officer Pankaj Rathod mentioned the method to vaccinate individuals from the 18-45 age group began at 48 totally different factors throughout town”s 21 city well being centres.
“On the first day, around 10,000 beneficiaries have registered for the vaccination across 48 centres in Rajkot,” he mentioned.
In Vadodara, round 7,000 beneficiaries from this age group are more likely to be vaccinated throughout the day, officers mentioned.
According to officers, the state authorities is in contact with the 2 vaccine makers- Bharat Biotech and Serum Institute of India – to get extra variety of doses.
Gujarat will get 11 lakh doses in May, they mentioned.
The drive might be rolled out in extra variety of districts as per the provision of doses, officers mentioned.
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