Jaipur, April 30 (SocialNews.XYZ) Hours after announcing that Rajasthan would curtail Phase 3 of the Covid vaccination drive to those aged 35-45 due to insufficient vaccine doses, state Health Minister Raghu Sharma on Friday said that inoculation of all aged 18-45 years would begin from May 1.
"Serum Institute of India, by late Friday evening, has announced to provide 5.44 lakh vaccines in this month... which till afternoon was limited to 3 lakh doses. Hence now, people under 18-45 years of age group will be vaccinated. Meanwhile, we are continuously asking the Centre to provide more vaccine doses as people in the 18-45 age group account for 3.25 crore people," he said
The vaccination will take place at 11 districts -- Jaipur, Jodhpur, Ajmer, Bikaner, Udaipur, Alwar, Dholpur, Bhilwara, Kota, Sikar and Pali -- where corona infection is the highest, he added.
Sharma had earlier on Friday said that those aged 35-45 years will be administered Covid vaccines from May 1 at 11 district headquarters under Phase 3 of the vaccination drive, as the SII had offered to provide 3 lakh vaccine (Covishield) doses.
The vaccination drive will start in other districts when SII provides more doses in the next few days, he had said.
Full vaccination for the 18-45 years age group will not be started from May 1.
As vaccines are unavailable at present hour, vaccination of complete population under 18-45 is not possible and we have decided to vaccinate people from 35-45 years of age, Sharma had said.
Source: IANS
Gopi Adusumilli is a Programmer. He is the editor of SocialNews.XYZ and President of AGK Fire Inc.
He enjoys designing websites, developing mobile applications and publishing news articles on current events from various authenticated news sources.
When it comes to writing he likes to write about current world politics and Indian Movies. His future plans include developing SocialNews.XYZ into a News website that has no bias or judgment towards any.
He can be reached at gopi@socialnews.xyz
This website uses cookies.
