Total 1.30 crore people vaccinated in Bihar, says CM Nitish Kumar

PATNA: CM Nitish Kumar on Friday fixed a target of vaccinating six crore people for Covid-19 in the next six months.
“So far, 1.30 crore people have been vaccinated for Covid-19 across the state, and now we have to vaccinate another six crore people in the next six months,” Nitish told the health department officials while reviewing the current status of the ongoing vaccination programme and the proposed ‘Tikakaran’ drive to speed up the anti-corona campaign in Bihar.
The CM also ordered to involve all employees of the state government in the vaccination drive. “All government employees must be involved in the vaccination campaign and they all should motivate a maximum number of people for taking the Covid-19 vaccine,” he said.
Nitish further asked the health officials to run the vaccination campaign on a regular basis and use different mediums of propaganda to educate people about the benefits of the vaccine. “You all should make micro-level planning at the Panchayat-level in the rural area and ward-level in urban area to ensure that no person is left without vaccination,” he said.
The CM said, people should be asked to take themselves vaccinated and also ensure vaccination of each members in their family. The vaccinated people must motivate their neighbours for taking vaccines.
“Though there has been a sharp decline in the infection rate of Covid-19 in the state in the recent weeks, still the health officials should increase the rate of testing. People have now started coming out of the home after end of the lockdown, hence it is necessary to conduct Covid-19 test on all people,” Nitish said, adding, “The state government is taking all necessary steps to save people from the Covid-19 pandemic.”
Nitish also said, “Ever since the people of the state have given me opportunity to serve them, development works have been done in all sector across the state. Special attention was given in the sectors like education and health. --- -- Besides the infrastructural development, several good works have been done in the health sector, resultantly the number of patients seeking treatment at the government—run health facilities has increased manifold.”
Earlier, the additional chief secretary (health) Pratyaya Amrit made a detailed presentation before the CM on the current status of Covid-19 infection, vaccination programme and Tikakaran Abhiyan.