Assam, Oct 29: Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on October 29 announced that the state has made the target of completing the process of vaccination with both doses by 15 January 2022.

Addressing a press conference in Guwahati, Sarma said the first dose of the vaccine to all those who are above 18 years will be completed by November 20.

Meanwhile, this important announcement was made at Assam Administration Staff College during the inauguration of the project “Mission Sadbhavna”. An estimation made is around 2.1 crore population with both first and second doses of vaccine by January next year.

“We have given 2.78 crore vaccine doses to our people, including 77 lakh people with double doses. We have around 2.1 crore eligible population and around 2,00,76,000 have already received the first dose,” CM Sarma added.

CM Sarma further added, “All the willing and concerned people above 18 years of age have almost taken at least the first dose of the vaccine and the remaining around 10 lakh people are a “resistant population”, who are either not willing to take the jab or some very senior people not able to come to the vaccine centers,”.

“We are targeting these 10 lakh people now and will launch a massive door-to-door vaccination drive for seven days in the most interior places, so that we can vaccinate all the people by November 20,” Sarma said.

The chief minister hoped that once the state is fully vaccinated, the third wave of the pandemic will not have much impact on its people.