Releasing a book authored by Sajjan Singh Yadav, additional secretary in the Central government at the World Book fair 2023, he praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s faith in the Indian scientific community and the stellar healthcare professionals across the country.
He stated that to accelerate and sustain the momentum of Covid vaccination through this campaign, the various districts across the state had prepared a list of all eligible beneficiaries.
According to the government spokesman, as many as 67 districts of the state reported no Covid case in the last 24 hours on Sunday.
Two urban centres, 3,540 villages achieve 100% first dose COVID-19 vaccine in Odisha: 32% are fully vaccinated,78% first dose coverage in the State.
The BJP's West Bengal unit will hold protests against fake vaccine drives and not utilizing the free doses provided by the Centre to vaccinate the state's people.
The officials said that the sites will have multiple centres where the Covid-19 vaccination drive would take place.
The minister kicked off the Covid-19 vaccination drive on Monday from Sarvodaya Kanya Vidyalaya in West Vinod Nagar.
A key theme underlying the meet was the identification of low vaccine coverage pockets particularly in districts showing COVID surge and for taking corrective actions there.
Union Minister Prakash Javadekar said that priority will be given to senior citizens, i.e. people over the age 60 and those above 45 years with co-morbidities at 10,000 government and over 20,000 private vaccination centres.
Secretary Health Amitabh Awasthi detailed about the ongoing COVID-19 vaccination drive in the state. Mission Director National Health Mission Nipun Jindal informed that 3,67,500 doses of Covishield vaccine has been received in the state in three lots.
