Major Achievement! Bhubaneswar becomes India’s first city to achieve 100% COVID vaccination

Bhubaneshwar, August 02: In the major development, Odisha's capital Bhubaneshwar has become the first city in the country to achieve 100 percent vaccination coverage against COVID-19.

 

 

Anshuman Rath, Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) Zonal Deputy Commissioner of South-East, Bhubaneswar informed about the latest development. He said, "100 percent of the population in Bhubaneswar have been vaccinated against Covid-19. "

 

 

Aushman said they had set a target to complete the vaccination in the specific timeline by 31 July. Rath said, "We had set a target to complete vaccination in a specific timeline. BMC has a record of around nine lakh people who are above 18 years of age in the city. Which includes around 31 thousand healthcare workers, 33 thousand front-line workers. 5 lakh 17 thousand people are in the age group of 18 to 44 years. Three lakh twenty-five thousand people are above 45 years of age. We had set a benchmark for these categories to complete their vaccination in the specific timeline by July 31."

 

 

 

"As per the report, we have already vaccinated 18 lakh 16 thousand people in the city. Only a few people were not being able to take first does due to various reasons. There is a migrating population, who is working in their office in Bhubaneswar and getting the first jab of Covaxin".

 

Talking about the vaccination of pregnant women, Rath further said, "Pregnant women are getting their first dose at vaccination centers. BMC is running 55 vaccination centers, which includes 30 primary health and community centers, 15 mobilised centers, and more than 10 drive-in vaccination centers across Bhubaneswar."

  

Odisha’s COVID-19 caseload on Sunday surged to 9,78,705 after 1,437 more people tested positive for the infection while 64 fresh fatalities took the coastal state’s toll to 5,966, a health department official said. Of the 1,437 cases, 832 were from quarantine centers, and the rest were detected during contact tracing.

 

 

Odisha currently has 15,858 active cases, while as many as 9,56,828 patients, including 1,899 on Saturday, have recovered from the highly infectious disease, the official said. The positivity rate in the coastal state stands at 6.07 percent.

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