One-day campaign focused on vaccinating rural population in GB Nagar

With an aim to increase the Covid-19 vaccination coverage in the rural areas of Gautam Budh Nagar, the district health department on Thursday held a one-day campaign in Dankaur and Jewar blocks

With an aim to increase the Covid-19 vaccination coverage in the rural areas of Gautam Budh Nagar, the district health department on Thursday held a one-day campaign in Dankaur and Jewar blocks. Officials said that 33 new Covid vaccination centres (CVCs) were created in the two blocks for the campaign.

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The officials said that 19 CVCs in Jewar and 14 in Dankaur carried out vaccination of the rural masses.

“The CVCs were created in primary health centres and primary schools in remote villages of Dankaur and Jewar. The campaign also focused on those villagers from Jewar who have been rehabilitated after their land was acquired for the Jewar international airport project,” said Dr Sunil Kumar Sharma, chief medical officer, GB Nagar.

According to district immunisation officer Dr Neeraj Tyagi, a total of 16,350 doses were administered across the district on Thursday. But he did not divulge the number of doses available for the campaign.

Tyagi said that targets were specified for the 25 CVCs being run daily in the district. “A target of 11,400 doses was specified at the 25 regular CVCs. But there were no targets specified for the 33 CVCs in Jewar and Dankaur that were created for the one-day campaign. No extra doses of vaccines were provided for the same either,” he said.

Tyagi also said that the data on vaccinations done in rural and urban areas of the district has not been recorded separately.