Thane to speed up vaccinations with 60 centres

THANE/KALYAN: Thane district will have around 60 Covid-19 vaccination centres starting from the end of this week, up from its current count of 46 centres. The district health authority has started including private mid-level hospitals as vaccination centres. Around 60,842 health and frontline workers have registered so far across Thane district, of which around 38,000 have been vaccinated.

The second phase of immunising frontline workers like police personnel and civic staff started on Thursday. Manish Renge, district health officer, Thane zilla parishad, said, “We are gradually working on increasing the number of vaccination centres across the district. Moreover, we are setting up additional teams of vaccinators at each centre. This will help increase the number of immunisations. Those who have already registered on the COWIN portal can walk into any centre across the district to get themselves vaccinated. There are various such measures undertaken to ensure that we reach out to more beneficiaries and increase the number of vaccinations across the district.”

Meanwhile, starting Thursday, the Kalyan Dombivli Municipal Corporation (KDMC) will vaccinate 5,116 frontline workers who have registered till date. “The list of registered frontline workers is 5,116, which will increase in the coming days,” said Pratibha Panpatil, epidemic officer, KDMC. So far, of the registered 8,000 health workers, KDMC has vaccinated 3,500.