The citizens are becoming aware about importance of vaccination which is evident from the fact that Nagpur Municipal Corporation as many as 42,402 citizens took vaccination doses against corona in NMC, private and government centres in the city on a single day on Tuesday.
NMC has launched a special campaign following directives by Radhakrishnan B, Municipal Commissioner. Congratulated the persons concerned for achieving this record and appealed to the citizens to follow the government rules to avoid the disease.
Over 19.73 lakh citizens are eligible for the vaccine doses and hence NMC has made arrangements for providing vaccination at 150 health centres. Of them over 19.16 lakh people have completed first dose; the percentage being 97.12. So far 11.63 lakh citizens completed second dose with the percentage of 58.97. Over 30.80 lakh people have taken vaccination in the city.
Moreover, the health workers are going door-to-door for administering doses in order to cover more and more people. On Tuesday alone, over 29,000 youths have also taken first dose.