Bihar: Separate link to be created to vaccinate children above 12

PATNA: A separate link will be created on the state health society’s website, where heads of the schools will have to upload the micro planning for the vaccination of children in their respective institutions.
Preparation in this regard is going on, especially keeping in mind the vaccination of children above 12 years, which is supposed to start from March.
State health society additional executive director Animesh Kumar Parasar on Friday said the data hosting work was going on and once completed, each school head will give the micro planning for vaccination in their schools.
“This will include the number of children who will fall under the category of beneficiaries for vaccination, name and contact of nodal teacher and that of the head. Once these information are available, we will tag the vaccinators,” said Parasar, adding the state was planning in advance ahead of vaccination of children from 12 and above.
Parasar further said this method will help them know the exact number of children and will ease the process of vaccination.
Earlier this week, chairman of central government’s Covid-19 Working Group of the National Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation, Dr NK Arora, had said vaccination of children from 12 to 14 years will start from March.
Parasar said they had started the preparation in this regard and once the signal is given from the Centre, they will roll out the vaccination process in Bihar.
As of now, vaccination of children above 15 years is going on across the country, including Bihar.
The data till Friday afternoon showed that 33.36 lakh teenagers in the state had been inoculated with the first dose of the vaccine and account for nearly 40% of the targeted population. There are a total 83.46 lakh beneficiaries in this age group in Bihar.
Parasar further said the state was fourth in the country in terms of vaccination coverage. Till Friday afternoon, over 10.90 crore doses had been inoculated in Bihar.