Guwahati, Jan 3: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday kickstarted the Covid-19 vaccination in Assam for the 15 -18 years age category at the OIL Higher Secondary School at Duliajan in upper Assam’s Dibrugarh district.
Grateful to Adarniya PM Sri @narendramodi for the next phase of India’s vaccination drive for children aged 15-18. Glad to have launched Assam’s #Covid vaccination drive at Oil India HS School, Duliajan today.
I urge all to take their vaccines.@CMOfficeAssam pic.twitter.com/2HhH1ZPHl8
— Himanta Biswa Sarma (@himantabiswa) January 3, 2022
Assam has set an estimated target of inoculating 20 lakh students between 15 and 18 years of age.
The jabs will be given at all government and private schools with more then 100 students. From Monday onwards, the schools will turn into vaccination centres.
“We have plan to complete double dose of vaccine for all students of 15-18 years before board exams of 10th and 12th in March and April. Every day each district will have 10 to 20 schools as vaccination centre,” a health department source said.
“We have plans to wrap up first dose of vaccination for 15-18 years with in a week. The schools have been asked to prepare the list of eligible students; parents need not do Cowin registration,” he added.
In Assam districts, 42 lakh Covid vaccine doses are currently in stock, whereas in the state vaccine store in Guwahati, 24 lakh more doses have been kept for future use as of Monday.
Out of this overall stock, health department sources said 13.84 lakh are Covaxin, which will be handy while vaccinating children.
