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74.25% turn up for Covid vaccination in Jhansi

In the third round of Covid-19 vaccination drive on Thursday, Jhansi witnessed a good turnout of health workers achieving a turnout of 74.25% of the target.
74.25% turn up for Covid vaccination in Jhansi
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JHANSI: In the third round of Covid-19 vaccination drive on Thursday, Jhansi witnessed a good turnout of health workers achieving a turnout of 74.25% of the target.
The vaccination was conducted in 25 sessions at 12 centres including Jhansi Medical College, Paramedical College, District Hospital, TB hospital and eight rural centres.
Of 3,290 beneficiaries identified for the third round, 2,443 turned up for Covid-19 vaccination on Thursday.
While the maximum number of turnout was of 88.5% at Bamore CHC, the minimum of 50% was recorded at the District Hospital.
Earlier, on Wednesday a workshop on Covid-19 vaccination was conducted by the health department in collaboration with a NGO. During the workshop, district magistrate Jhansi, Andra Vamsi showed his concern over the previous low turn out 58% of health workers during the last two sessions of Covid-19 vaccination.
Meanwhile, three new Covid-19 positive cases were confirmed after the arrival of 2,801 lab test reports in the district on Thursday. With the detection of new cases, the total number of the Covid-19 positive cases reached 10,398. With the recovery of 21 patients the number of recoveries reached 8,370 in the district. The recovery rate here was recorded at 97.73%. At present, there are 61 active cases in the district.
The total number of Covid-19 related deaths in the district has reached 174 with a case fatality rate (CFR) of 1.6.
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