In 10 days, 50% of eligible kids vaccinated in Rajasthan

JAIPUR: In just 10 days, 15-17 years children have scaled up the Covid vaccination drive in the state as 50 per cent of them have already taken the shots. Till Thursday, 49,647 children were vaccinated taking the cumulative tally to 23,60,115.
“More than 50 per cent of the population in the age group 15-17 years have now received the first dose of Covid vaccine.Besides, elderlies with comorbidities, healthcare workers (HCWs) and frontline workers (FLWs) are also getting vaccinated in increased numbers,” said Dr Raghuraj Singh, project director (immunization), health department.
Health department officials said the Centre has given a target of vaccinating 46 lakh children in the age group of 15-17 years.
Also, the population eligible for the second dose too has come down from 87 lakh to 65 lakh as more people have turned up for the second shot.
Besides, around 24.15 lakh are eligible for precautionary dose, out of those, 5.17 lakh are HCWs, 6.48 lakh are FLWs and 12.5 lakh are 60+ with comorbidities. On Thursday, 18,425 elders received the booster shot, which took the tally of elders who have already taken the booster dose to 1,18,330, which is 8.7 per cent of the elderlies with comorbidities eligible for the booster dose. Also, 27,203 booster doses were administered to HCWs and FLWs, taking the figure to 1,82,241, which is 15.5% of the eligible HCWs and FLWs for booster doses. TNN