Eligible college students, staffers in Punjab to get 1st jab of COVID-19 vaccine in July
In an order to boost the ongoing Covid-19 vaccination drive, the Punjab government would soon launch a special campaign to administer the COVID-19 vaccine in all students above 18 years of age and staffers, both administrative and academic, at the colleges in Punjab.
For this purpose, special camps would be held at the colleges in Punjab and all the eligible students and staffers would be given the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine within July itself. The move is aimed to boost the ongoing COVID-19 Vaccination.
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A decision to this effect was taken at the 96th meeting of the health sector response and procurement committee, chaired by the Chief Secretary, Vini Mahajan, on Monday.
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She asked the Health and Family Welfare department to appoint a team at the state as well as district levels for the weekly review of the Covid positivity data in order to sound an alert whenever the positivity rate rises anywhere in the state.
She also asked the Principal Health Secretary, Hussan Lal, to appoint a nodal officer to ensure optimum utilisation of Covid related health infrastructure in the state at the earliest.
Calling for aggressive contact tracing and testing to keep the virus surge under control, the Chief Secretary asked the Health Department to ensure complete accuracy in entering and updating the testing data on Cova mobile app by all the districts and the same must also be reflected in the daily Covid report.
The Principal Health Secretary was asked to assign the responsibility to an official for accomplishing this task.
Asking the Health department to review the availability of Fateh kits at all the health and wellness centers besides all other healthcare institutions in the state, the Chief Secretary called for a status report in this regard.
-PTC News
