Covid vaccine ~ Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on 15th November 2021 (Monday) has asked Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland, and Puducherry to ‘launch aggressive campaigns’ because these states have reportedly been low on vaccination coverage. So through this campaign, there would be a positive increase in vaccination of COVID-19 of the mass population. States were told to make innovative short video clips to address target groups for hesitancy, along with effective use of various social media platforms and traditional media so that people get more and more information as to how this COVID-19 vaccine is of utmost importance and effectiveness.
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“We are in the last lap of COVID-19 vaccination. Let us launch an aggressive campaign to ensure full COVID-19 vaccination by increasing the pace of vaccination and expanding the coverage,” he said while virtually interacting with health secretaries and senior officials of the health department from Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland, and Puducherry during a meeting he chaired to review the status of Covid vaccination in these states and the union territory and the progress under the ‘Har Ghar Dastak’ campaign.
Even on Wednesday the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi has launched the month-long ‘Har Ghar Dastak’ campaign with an aim to give special focus to those mass populations whose second dose vaccination is due to accelerate complete vaccination. Modi addressed the chief ministers of 11 states According to the government data, as of October 27, at least 103.4 million second doses were overdue, a cause for concern because only both doses provide adequate protection against symptomatic infection by the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes Covid-19, hospitalization, even death.
