HYDERABAD: Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation’s (GHMC’s) Covid-19 special mop-up drive picked up pace with special teams deployed in different parts of the city to inoculate people who had been left out of the Covid-19 vaccination drive.
GHMC issued certificates of complete vaccination to 379 colonies on Sunday, the seventh day of Covid-19 mass vaccination drive. With this, the cumulative number of colonies declared as cent per cent vaccinated stands at 2,510.
Chief secretary Somesh Kumar said the special drive would cover 4,846 colonies, slums and other areas in GHMC limits and 360 localities in SCB limits.
“The team deployed for mobile vaccination drive will be informing people to get vaccinated with date and time in advance. This special mop up drive has been arranged to ensure that all the eligible people in the city are administered with both doses of the vaccine. Adequate quantity vaccine has been made available to cover all households in GHMC and Cantonment areas,” Somesh Kumar said.
Mass vaccination was taken up in 432 colonies on Sunday, which takes up the total number of colonies covered to 3,187.
As part of the special drive, 28,278 persons have been given the first dose of the vaccine, while the number of those administered the second dose stands at 9964.
In the last one week, 1.97 lakh persons have been vaccinated with the first dose, while 47,015 have been given the second dose, taking the total number to 2.44 lakh.
In all, 580 mobile vaccination clinics were pressed into service at the allotted colonies by 8 am to carry out the drive.
The Telangana government hopes to vaccinate the city’s entire eligible population within the next one week.
