20,000 beneficiaries get vaccine on Wednesday

PUNE Since the Covid-19 vaccination drive has begun for senior citizens, from the beginning of March, the numbers have gone up

PUNE Since the Covid-19 vaccination drive has begun for senior citizens, from the beginning of March, the numbers have gone up. On Wednesday, 20,000 senior citizens and those aged between 45-59, with comorbidities, took their first Covid-19 shot. The district has vaccinated 112% of the 2,2556 target beneficiaries in PMC, PCMC and Pune rural.

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The district operated 208 vaccination sites, of which 82 are in PMC, 105 in Pune rural and PCMC had 21 sites. Totally, 67,700 senior citizens and those aged between 45-59, with comorbidities, have been vaccinated in nine days.

On Wednesday, 589 people got their second dose of the Covid-19 vaccine. Of the total of 25,241 people who got the vaccine, 1,428 are health care workers and 2,563 are frontline workers. No adverse effect following vaccination was reported on Wednesday.

Pune has seen a total of 0.222 million vaccinations, of which 67,000 are senior citizens. Totally close to 18 lakh people await vaccination under phase two in the district.