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COVID-19: Punjab CM expands 18-45 age group vaccination priroty list from June 1

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COVID-19: Punjab CM expands 18-45 age group vaccination priroty list from June 1
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From June 1 onwards, the COVID-19 vaccination priority list for the 18-45 age group in Punjab will be expanded to include shopkeepers and their staff, hospitality sector, industrial workers, rehriwalas, street vendors, delivery boys, bus/cab drivers/conductors and members of local bodies, Captain Amarinder Singh announced. This was announced on Thursday by Punjab CM Captain Amarinder Singh, who said as of date, 4.3 lakh individuals in the existing COVID-19 vaccination priority list of construction labour, co-morbid individuals and families of healthcare workers in this age group had been vaccinated.
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From June 1 onwards, COVID-19 vaccination priority list for 18-45 age group in Punjab will be expanded, Captain Amarinder Singh announced. Besides shopkeepers and their staff members, as well as industrial workers, the expanded priority list, effective June 1, will include staff working in hotels, restaurants, marriage palaces, caterers, including cooks, bearers etc. From June 1 onwards, COVID-19 vaccination priority list for 18-45 age group in Punjab will be expanded, Captain Amarinder Singh announced. In addition to rehriwalas, other street vendors will also become eligible, especially those serving food items - juice, chat, fruit etc., as well as delivery boys, LPG distribution boys. Bus drivers, conductors, auto/ cab drivers, mayors, councillors, sarpanches and panches will also be covered in this phase of 18-45 age group vaccination. As far as existing vaccine stocks were concerned, the state only had a balance of 36000 Covishield and 50000 Covaxin doses (from those received from the Government of India) for the 45+ age group, and these were sufficient only for a day, the meeting was informed. In the 18-45 age group, so far the state had received 4,29,780 of the 30 lakh doses ordered while no Covaxin dose had been received so far though advance payment had been made for 1,14,190 doses. Click here to follow PTC News on Twitter -PTC News-
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