Top officials of the state health department have directed district teams to contact people eligible for the vaccine through call centers or home visits and remind them to take the second dose of Kovishield. covaxin Vaccination.
There are still a total of 89.46 lakh beneficiaries across the state who have to take the second dose of Covishield and 12.23 lakh need the second dose of Covaxin.
Dr Pradeep Vyas, Additional Chief Secretary, Health, Maharashtra informed that efforts are being made by directly contacting the beneficiaries through call centers and home visits. Indian Express, “Our district health team is engaged in information, education and communication campaigns,” he said.
Dr Vyas, however, denied the vaccine’s hesitation and acknowledged that it was partly true that vaccination numbers had increased as many countries started reporting it. omicron type of COVID-19, she added. “Covering 86 per cent of the targeted beneficiaries with the first dose and 52 per cent with the second dose in a large state with different demographics and geography is a huge achievement”.
According to the latest report by the state health department, Pune has the highest number of eligible people, 11 lakh, yet to get the second jab of the Kovidshield vaccine. A report by the state health department said another 77,000 are yet to receive a second jab of the Covaxin vaccine.
In Mumbai, there are 6.79 lakh beneficiaries who are yet to receive their second dose of CovaShield vaccine, while over 62,000 are yet to receive the second dose of Covaxin vaccine.
There are many other districts where a large number of people are yet to take their first dose of any vaccine against COVID-19.
Thane tops the list, where at least 13.83 lakh have not yet taken the first shot of the vaccine, followed by Nashik (11.4 lakh), Jalgaon (8.56 lakh), Ahmednagar (8.45 lakh), Nanded (8.16 lakh), Solapur (7.65 lakhs). ), Aurangabad (6.47 lakh) and others. There are at least 1.41 crore beneficiaries who have not yet received their first dose of vaccine. As of December 13, Maharashtra had 6,509 active cases of Covid-19, of which 59 per cent were hospitalised.
While the Covid positivity rate in the week till December 14 was 0.8 per cent, there are 10 districts whose weekly Covid positivity rate was higher than the state average. This includes Pune which has a weekly Covid positivity rate of 1.6 per cent, Palghar, Ahmednagar, Buldhana, Jalna, Sindhudurg, Solapur, Kolhapur, Sangli and Satara.
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