Haryana State National Health Mission (NHM) director Dr VK Bansal said that a total of 6186 healthcare workers in Haryana received Covid-19 vaccine shots on Thursday, taking the number of beneficiaries vaccinated against the disease in the state so far to 1,16,481.

Talking to ‘The Pioneer’ over the phone, Bansal said that Haryana has taken a lead in effective implementation of the first phase of the Covid-19 vaccine roll-out by maintaining a good coverage. About 60 per cent of the set target of two lakh Health Care Workers have been achieved so far.

He said that by implementing all the necessary guidelines, the Health officials administered Covid-19 vaccine to 6186 Health Care Workers at immunization centre and primary health centres across the State.

Till date, the State has vaccinated 1,16,481 Health care workers. In the next few days, remaining around 80, 000 registered and eligible beneficiaries will be vaccinated, he said, adding that the Health Department had observed January 25 as Covid-19 Vaccination Day and 33,215 Health Care Workers were administered COVID-19 vaccine.

Bansal expressed hope that the State would soon be able to complete Covid-19 vaccination of all registered Health Care Workers except those who cannot be given vaccine as per guidelines (pregnant and lactating women, persons who are allergic to any vaccine).

The vaccine drive was launched on January 16 at 77 vaccination sites across Haryana. To achieve the set target of vaccinating the beneficiaries on time, over the last one week, the vaccination drive has also been started at those primary health centres where at least more than 10 registered and eligible beneficiaries are willing to vaccinate themselves, he added.   

97 MORE CASES IN HARYANA, NO DEATH IN 3 DAYS

Haryana on Thursday recorded 97 fresh coronavirus cases, while no death due to the infection took place in the past 72 hours, according to a health department’s bulletin. The total number of fatalities in the state stands at 3014 The 97 fresh cases included 19 from Gurgaon and nine from Faridabad, it stated.

The total number of infections reported in the state has now risen to 2,67,601. The number of active Covid-19 cases in the State is 1240, while 2,63,347 patients have recovered. The recovery rate is 98.43 percent, the bulletin stated.