Punjab to start door-to-door vaccination from Monday
Covid-19 positivity remains below 2%, daily cases lower than 1,000 this week
The Punjab government in order to meet its 100 per cent vaccination target has decided to launch doorto-door Covid-19 vaccination drive starting Monday.
A notification issued by the provincial government said the campaign would continue until November 12 in the biggest populated province (of over 100 million population) of the country and during the door-to-door vaccination drive, the residents of Punjab’s 36 districts would be inoculated at their doorsteps.
As per the notification, the drive aimed at ensuring that 100 per cent of the targeted people are immunised against the virus. The authorities have also appointed a focal person who will ensure that the campaign achieves the set target.
Legal action
The move has been made to vaccinate the people who still have not got themselves vaccinated after reports showed that a number of people had not received the vaccine jabs.
According to authorities, legal action will be taken against those who refuse to get themselves vaccinated.
On Friday, the province’s positivity rate was recorded 1.1 per cent and according to the Primary & Secondary Health Department (PSHD) of the province, 162 new Covid-19 infections were reported against 15,002 tests conducted in last twenty-four hours. The province’s single-day tally of recoveries was 512.
Fewer than 1,000 cases
Pakistan on Friday reported 567 new cases of Covid-19 during the last twenty-four hours and with this single day tally, the country reported less than 1,000 new cases on every day of the entire week. With decline in new coronavirus cases over the week, the positivity rate of coronavirus has also dropped below 2 per cent which is being seen as a big achievement in fight against the virus.