Kejri: 45+ people will get vaccine at polling booths
Booth level officers to visit door-to-door for allocating slots to eligible persons
Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday launched the government’s plan of starting mass vaccination at booth level in a planned manner in the national capital.
Polling booths in Delhi will be turned into vaccination centres and boothlevel officers (BLOs) will visit all the households to book slots for people in the 45 plus age group under the “Jahan Vote, Wahan Vaccination” campaign, chief minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Monday.
“Under the campaign, we will tell people to visit their designated polling stations to get vaccinated. Door-to-door vaccination to be done soon,” he said.
Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday launched the government’s plan of starting mass vaccination at booth level in a planned manner in the national capital.
Polling booths in Delhi will be turned into vaccination centres and boothlevel officers (BLOs) will visit all the households to book slots for people in the 45 plus age group under the ‘Jahan Vote, Wahan Vaccination’ campaign, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Monday.
“We are starting a ‘Jahan Vote, Wahan Vaccination’ campaign from today. Under this campaign, we will tell people to visit their designated polling stations to get vaccinated. Door-to-door vaccination to be done soon,” Mr Kejriwal announced in a press conference.
We have noticed that people in the 45 plus age group are not coming to vaccination centres set up by the Delhi government and vaccines are not being utilised,” he said.
There are around 280 wards in Delhi. The BLOs will visit households in 72 wards from Tuesday to identify and send eligible persons for vaccination at the polling booths, he said.
The chief minister said polling booths are close to the homes of the people so they will not have to travel long distances to get the vaccine. Also, the government has arranged e-rickshaws to ferry people to the vaccination centres.
The BLOs will give slots for vaccination to people in the 45 plus age group at the nearest polling centre. In a cycle of five days, all the eligible persons will be covered.
“After covering all the 280 wards in four weeks, the government will be able to say that all those eligible (45 years and above) have received the vaccines, Kejriwal said.
He said a similar drive will be conducted again for second dose vaccination after three months.
“When we will get vaccines for the 18-44 age group in the required quantity, we will start this programme for them too, he added
The chief minister said that the government aims to vaccinate all above the age of 45 in the next 4 weeks.
The Delhi CM further said that out of 57 lakh people in the 45 plus age group, 27 lakh have been vaccinated with the first dose. Now they will be given anti-Covid vaccines at polling booths.
The national capital reported 231 new instances of the Covid-19 infection, the lowest since March 2, with the positivity rate dipping to 0.36 per cent, according to the health bulletin released on Monday. Thirty-six more people succumbed to the disease in a day, pushing the death toll here to 24,627.
On Sunday, Delhi had recorded 34 fatalities, the lowest in around two months, and 381 cases with a positivity of 0.5 per cent.
On Saturday, the city registered 60 fatalities and 414 new cases of COVID-19 with a positivity rate of 0.53 per cent. The day before, it had recorded 50 deaths and 523 new cases with a positivity rate of 0.68 per cent.
Kejriwal had on Saturday said the coronavirus situation in Delhi was under control. “Bringing back the economy on track is crucial as the situation of coronavirus is improving,” he had said.
The national capital started the unlocking process from Monday after remaining under lockdown since April 19 in view of a massive surge in Covid-19 cases in the second wave of the pandemic.
Since April 19, both daily cases and single-day death count had been spiralling up. On April 20, the city had reported 28,395 cases, the highest in the city since the beginning of the pandemic. On April 22 the case positivity rate was 36.2 per cent, the highest so far. The highest number of 448 deaths was reported on May 3.
However, the number of cases has shown a downward trend of late. The positivity rate too has been shrinking in the last several days.
The national capital had recorded 623 cases and 62 deaths last Tuesday, 576 cases and 103 fatalities on Wednesday, and 487 cases and 45 deaths on Thursday.
A total of 63,610 tests, including 50,139 RT-PCR ones, were conducted a day ago, according to the health bulletin on Monday.
The total number of cases reported in the city so far stood at 14,29,475, while over 13.9 lakh patients have recovered from the virus.
The city now has 5,208 active cases, down from 5,889 a day before, the bulletin said.
The number of people under home isolation dipped to 1,932 from 2,327 on Sunday, it added.
We are starting a ‘Jahan Vote, Wahan Vaccination’ campaign from today. Under this campaign, we will tell people to visit their designated polling stations to get vaccinated. Door-todoor vaccination to be done soon
— Arvind Kejriwal, Delhi CM