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Updated July 5th, 2021 at 19:08 IST

Punjab: All eligible college students, staffers to get first dose of COVID vaccine in July

The Punjab govt plans to launch a special campaign to inoculate all students above 18 years of age and staffers administrative and academic, at colleges.

Reported by: Gargi Rohatgi
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In an attempt to boost the ongoing COVID-19 vaccination drive in Punjab, CM Amarinder Singh-led state government said that it plans to launch a special campaign to inoculate all students above 18 years of age and staffers administrative and academic, at colleges. For this special campaign, the Punjab government will be setting up camps at colleges of the state and inoculate all the eligible students and staffers with their first dose of the COVID vaccine in July itself, said the state Health and Family welfare department.

Punjab govt to launch special campaign for vaccination

Chief Secretary Vini Mahajan has asked officials concerned to appoint a team at the state as well as district levels for a weekly review of the COVID positivity data in order to sound an alert whenever the positivity rate rises anywhere in the state. Further, she has 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.

Giving direction for aggressive contact tracing and testing to keep the virus surge under control, Mahajan has ordered the Punjab health department to ensure complete accuracy in entering and updating the testing data on Cova mobile app. The same must also be reflected in the daily COVID report, she added.

Vini Mahajan has further requested a report on the status of the availability of Fateh kits at the health and wellness centres, besides other healthcare institutions in the state. Mahajan also instructed the PHSC to prepare a fleet of 270 ambulances, including those procured after 2017, and scrap the old ambulances, which were unfit for use. Stressing on the need for adequate health manpower, their proper training, and requisite equipment to defeat the virus spread, she has asked for setting up of new health institutions, along with up-gradation of existing health infrastructure at the earliest.

Meanwhile, the Medical Education department has been instructed to ramp up the facilities at the PGI satellite centre in Sangrur and AIIMS in Bathinda to make them robust to tackle the likely third COVID wave. Lauding the department for inoculating more than six lakh people in a day during the mass vaccination drive held on Saturday, she instructed them to maintain the same pace for the upcoming days.

COVID-19 situation in Punjab

Punjab so far has recorded over 5,96,416 positive cases, out of which, 5,77,982 have successfully recovered and 16,110 have died. As per the latest reports from MoHFW, in the past 24 hours, 151 new cases, 358 fresh recoveries and 7 deaths have been recorded. Currently, the total number of active COVID-19 cases in the state is 2,324. 

As far as vaccination statistics in the state is concerned, so far 70,65,450 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered, out of which, 58,31,675 are the first doses and 12,33,775 are the second doses. 

(Image: PTI)

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Published July 5th, 2021 at 19:08 IST

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