Enthusiasm among children towards vaccination has fueled the drive as more than 16.57% of the beneficiaries in the state have got the first dose.
Health minister Parsadi Lal Meena said vaccination was done at 4,603 sites. “In two days, we have achieved 16.57% vaccination of eligible children,” he said. Health secretary Vaibhav Galriya said vaccination had picked up pace in the state. Till 5.30pm on Tuesday, the cumulative doses administered to beneficiaries rose to 8.34 crore, out of those 4.78 crore are first doses and 3.56 crore second.
In Sikar, more than 1lakh doses were administered on Tuesday, out of which 71,000 doses were children. “In our district, we have around 2 lakh children in the 15-17 years category. We have vaccinated over 71,000 children. We organised 400 vaccination sites including in government and private schools. It is a result of enthusiasm of children towards vaccination and hard work of health department’s teams including vaccinators and doctors,” said Dr Ajay Chaudhary, chief medical health officer (Sikar).
More than 24,000 doses were administered to children in Jaipur. Alwar was ranked No. 2 in vaccination of children with 28,133 shots. Jaisalmer was the last with 1,941 doses.
