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| Vaccination drive for above 45-years age group may miss another deadline set by LG Sinha | | |
Early Times Report
Srinagar, June 16: Health Department is likely to miss yet another deadline set by Lieutenant Governor, Manoj Sinha, to vaccinate 100 percent population above 45-years of age in Jammu and Kashmir.
The LG has set June 31 as another deadline to complete the vaccination drive for the people above 45-years in J&K after the department missed the first deadline on May 26.
According to the officials 23.94 percent of the population in this group is yet to be vaccinated in J&K and at the current speed it looks impossible to achieve the target.
After missing the first deadline of May 26, authorities have managed to vaccinate only 9.05 percent of the population in the 45-plus category, the official said.
“In the next ten days, after the first deadline was missed, only another 4.6 percent of the population was added to the vaccinated list,” the official added.
“After the LG set the June end deadline the very next day the number of jabs administered in this category went down by 57 percent,” the official said, adding, “If this trend continues deadline after deadline will be missed as it took 19 days to vaccinate only 9 percent of this section of the population. Vaccinating another 24 percent in less than 15 days looks unachievable.”
The Jammu and Kashmir administration had recently claimed that four of districts, Shopian and Ganderbal in Kashmir division and Jammu and Samba in Jammu division, have achieved 100 percent target.
However, data shows that the 45-plus population in Samba is yet to be fully vaccinated. According to the official data, only 99.2 percent of this section of the population has been vaccinated in Samba district.
Meanwhile, Srinagar and Kupwara districts in Kashmir division are the worst performers on this front. In Srinagar, only 50 percent of the 45-plus population has been vaccinated thus far.
In Kupwara district only 45 percent of the target has been achieved.
An official associated with the vaccination drive said that the availability of vaccines was a prerequisite to achieve the target in time. |
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