Vaccination a powerful weapon against COVID19; let us embark on aggressive campaigns for increasing its pace and expanding the Coverage: Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya

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Vaccination a powerful weapon against COVID19; let us embark on aggressive campaigns for increasing its pace and expanding the Coverage: Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya

“We are in the last lap of COVID19 Vaccination. Let us launch aggressive campaign to ensure full COVID-19 vaccination by increasing the pace of vaccination and expanding the coverage”. This was stated by Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare today as hevirtually interacted with Health Secretaries and senior officials of the Health Department from Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland and Puducherry during the meeting he chaired to review the status of COVID 19 vaccination in these States/UT and the progress under the Har GharDastak campaign. These States/UT have been reporting low vaccination coverage.While India's first dose coverage is at 82% and second dose coverage at 43%, Puducherry (66%, 39%), Nagaland (49%, 36%), Meghalaya (57%, 38%) and Manipur (54%, 36%) lag behind from national average in their first and second dose coverage.