Vaccination of high risk groups not touching target
The particular vaccination drive initiated by the GHMC for high risk groups or “super spreaders” could not obtain the meant target, going by the day by day vaccination figures.
While a target of 30,000 beneficiaries has been fastened per day for the GHMC on the fee of 1,000 per circle, day by day quantity of vaccinations have by no means reached this target. The determine principally hovered between 21,000 and 24,000 per day.
During the 10-day drive which started on May 28, a complete of three lakh beneficiaries from chosen 9 trades have been to be vaccinated.
They included house owners and staff of grocery shops, avenue distributors, liquor store distributors, and staff at fruit, vegetable and flower markets, wholesale markets and rythu bazars amongst a number of others. After six days, the determine of vaccinated tremendous spreaders stands at over 1.4 lakh, with the best vaccinations carried out on Tuesday at 27,117. As obvious irregularities have come to fore with regard to challenge of tokens for vaccination, the method of registrations has been shifted to on-line from Wednesday onwards.
Accordingly, particulars of the beneficiary might be entered into a web based app together with their cellphone numbers. Vaccination slot for the following day together with a reference quantity might be despatched to their cell, and they are often vaccinated after producing the reference quantity.
On Wednesday, vaccination was administered to mere 21,946 beneficiaries. Officials attribute this to the vaccine hesitancy amongst beneficiaries in a number of areas.