This story is from June 3, 2021

Ward-wise vax drive in Katihar from today

Ward-wise vax drive in Katihar from today
KATIHAR: The health department may have introduced the Covid vaccination drive at the block and panchayat levels in Katihar district with a view to attracting more beneficiaries, but it is yet to pick up the pace.
According to a source, the footfalls at different vaccination sites have been low for the last four days. Instead of 4,000, only 1,500 people have taken part in the 40 inoculation camps organised in the district.
“The vaccination drive for healthcare and frontline workers, senior citizens as well as people above the age of 45 and 18 years is going on at 17 places in the district.
As many as 2,24,300 doses of Covishield have been given to them so far,” the district immunisation officer, Dr D N Jha, told this newspaper on Wednesday.
He added, “In urban areas, on the other hand, people are receiving vaccine shots on the premises of hospitals, courts and electricity offices. A ward-wise inoculation drive will begin from Thursday so that maximum number of people are inoculated.”
Meanwhile, Piramal Foundation handed over 27 oxygen concentrators to district magistrate Udayan Mishra on Wednesday. These will be used in the paediatrics department of the sadar hospital.
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