INDORE: Health authorities have asked district administration to take strict measures for completing second dose of Covid-19 doses among people resisting it.
The authorities seek deterrent measures to disallow overdue/due people from entry to public places to complete vaccination.
The district has around seven lakh overdue/ due people eligible for second dose administration but not turning out as drive lost momentum in the last one month or so. District Immunisation in-charge Dr Tarun Gupta said, “Because of lower turn out of people for taking their second dose despite becoming eligible is a cause of concern. The vaccine gives maximum protection after two dose inoculations.”
“Those who have taken the first dose and not come for the second dose are resisting it because of fake confidence of protection, vaccine apprehensiveness, complacency”, said Dr Gupta.
An adult person become due after completing a gap of 84 days after first dose in case of Covishield and for covaxin it is 28 days. The overdue people are those, who aren’t taking their second doses after 14 days of prescribed gap in Covishield and seven days in Covaxin. TOI on October 6 reported how the mass vaccination drive lost momentum.
Following it, the district administration in the last week wrote to secretaries, presidents of all associations to ensure full immunization of their members.
