Haryana Health Department administered 40,878 vaccine doses to the beneficiaries across the state today thus, the consolidated figure regarding vaccine administration is 13,02,677 COVID-19 vaccine doses till today.
- Chandigarh, March 26 – Haryana Health Department administered 40,878 vaccine doses to the beneficiaries across the state today thus, the consolidated figure regarding vaccine administration is 13,02,677 COVID-19 vaccine doses till today.
- Sharing information in this regard, Additional Chief Secretary, Health Sh. Rajeev Arora said that the Health Department has administered 40,878 vaccine doses today and the Department is working to ensure that the vaccine is administered to everyone.
- On the COVID-19 Vaccine Roll Out plan, Sh. Arora said that the Department had set up 881 Vaccination Centres across Haryana of which 669 were being run by government and 212 were private. He elaborated that these Centres have been strategically placed in highly populated areas across the state and even in the rural areas to ensure maximum penetration of the vaccine so as to curtail the spread of highly contagious COVID-19 virus.
- Most of the beneficiaries were above 60 years of age or between 45 years to 60 years with co-morbidities, he added.
- On the administration of vaccines to Health Care Workers (HCWs) and Frontline Workers (FLWs) Sh. Arora said that 1,82,833 Health Care Workers (HCWs) have been administered the first dose of COVID-19 vaccine which cover around 84 per cent of the HCWs and around 1,10,560 Health Care Workers (HCWs) have been administered the second dose which covers around 60 per cent of the HCWs. Sharing the details of the Frontline Workers (FLWs) he said that 1,02,428 FLWs have been administered the first dose of the vaccine that is 76 per cent of FLWs and 35,992 FLWs have been administered the second dose which makes it 35 per cent. On the vaccine administered to beneficiaries above 60 years, within the age group of 45 to 60 years (with co-morbidities) and general citizens the first dose of the vaccine has been given to 8,70,864 beneficiaries.
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