The first day for the second dose vaccine administration proved disappointing as only 7,688 beneficiaries, who had received the first dose of covid vaccine, showed up to the vaccination booths for their scheduled second shot on Saturday, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare informed at a press conference.
Saturday’s figures come to just 4 per cent of the beneficiaries who received vaccines on the launch day of the nationwide Covid immunisation drive on January 16 in which 1,91,181 healthcare workers were vaccinated.
The government had asked those beneficiaries who had received their partial immunisation to receive the full dose with the second shot starting Saturday. As per the doses-regimen prescribed for the Covid vaccines, the gap between the two doses is four to six weeks. Around 1,91,181 beneficiaries, who had participated in the vaccination drive on its launch day (January 16), were expected to take the booster dose on Saturday.
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