Vaccine mela
Sajjanar urges people to take vaccine to fight the present and the future waves
Health workers administer Covid vaccine to people at Hitex in Madhapur on Sunday. Huge response from the people led to a traffic jam at Hitec City.
The biggest-ever vaccination drive, organised by the Cyberabad police, Society for Cyberabad Security Council (SCSC) and Medicover, was flagged off by Director of Public Health Dr G. Srinivas Rao on Sunday.
Speaking at the event, Dr Rao said, “Covid will be under control and we get back to the pre-second wave situation in just a few days. We have inoculated 52 lakh people in Telangana state so far. Our target is to vaccinate 2.75 crore people in the state. We will be able to vaccinate the entire state in 30 days.”
He said, “If we have reached this position, not just because of health care professionals but also the police for maintaining strict lockdown.”
Dr Rao said that the vaccine would be beneficial in three ways: A person who is fully vaccinated is protected 90 per cent against
Covid-19; a person who contracts the Coronavirus after being fully vaccinated will have only a mild form of infection and hospitalisation may not be required and; a fully vaccinated person is a ‘safe person’ who will not spread the virus.
“Once we vaccinate 70 per cent of the population we can witness herd immunity,” Dr Rao said.
V.C. Sajjanar, Cyberabad police commissioner, said, “Irrespective of cases, people must get vaccinated at the earliest possible time.” He described the mega drive as the first of its kind in the world. “Similarly, we must vaccinate people faster than the spread of the virus to fight
Covid-19.”
Sajjanar appreciated SCSC volunteers for making Sunday’s event a success. He requested the people to take the Covid-19 vaccination to fight the present wave and also the future waves.
Krishna Yedula, secretary-general of the SCSC, said that the organisers took the help of technology to manage such a large number of people in the least possible time. “It was a paperless, touchless, cashless and contactless vaccination drive,” he said.
People could get their vaccination in just five minutes without waiting in long queues. “In this race, we must compete with Coronavirus, run faster and vaccinate faster than the speed of its spread. Only then can we check it and throw it out of our lives,” said Krishna Yedula.