Amravati. So far, 46.51 percent of adolescent students in the age group of 15 to 18 years have been vaccinated in the district. Due to which, within a month till February 4, 69 thousand 741 students of the district have been given the first dose of vaccine and 5 thousand 260 students have been given the second dose. A total of 75 thousand 9 doses have been administered to teenagers in this month. The highest dose of vaccine has been given to 17 thousand 720 students and the second dose to 943 students in the Metropolitan Municipality area. According to the information received from the Health Department, there are a total of 1 lakh 49 thousand 956 adolescent beneficiaries of 15 to 18 categories in the district.
great response on day one
Due to the outbreak of the Omicron variant of the corona virus across the country, the corona preventive vaccination of students in the age group of 15 to 18 years was started from 3 January 22. There was a tremendous response from the students on the very first day of this vaccination campaign in the district. Therefore, on the very first day itself, about three thousand students were vaccinated in the district. The district administration had also organized vaccination camps at tehsil level and various colleges to make the vaccination campaign of the students successful.
Therefore, during the period of one month from January 3 to February 4, a total of 75, thousand 7 youths have been given vaccine doses in the district. Out of these, 69 thousand 741 students were given the first dose of vaccine and 5 thousand 260 students were given the second dose and 46.51 percent of the adolescents were vaccinated.
Now the pace of vaccination is slow
Adolescent students aged 15 to 18 years had a good response to vaccination during the first eight days. Due to which three thousand students were vaccinated on the first day. In eight days till January 10, 45 thousand 19 students were vaccinated. But since then the pace of vaccination has slowed down, and till February 4, only 30,000 doses have increased.
Tehsil wise details of 15 to 18 age group vaccination
Tehsil first dose second dose target percentage
Achalpur 5178 504 14507 35.69
Amravati 3139 46 7145 43.93
Anjangaon Surji 3990 197 8325 47.93
Bhatkuli 2477 197 5721 43.30
Chandur Bazar 4172 366 9988 41.77
Chandur Railway 2623 696 4967 52.81
Chikhaldara 1019 00 6026 33.50
Daryapur 3800 128 9875 42.34
Dhamangaon Railway 3837 581 6792 56.49
Dharani 3498 36 9392 37.24
Morshi 3806 108 9353 40.69
Nandgaon Khande. 3392 323 6566 51.66
Tevasa 3459 573 5297 65.30
Varud 6631 242 11602 57.15
Municipal area 17720 943 35300 50.20
Total 69741 5260 149956 46.51