Bhubaneswar: Covid-19 vaccination will resume in different hospitals of Odisha from Thursday as a precautionary measure amid the increasing number of people being infected by different variants of the deadly virus across the globe.
Preparations for administering the second precautionary dose of Covid, as well as the booster dose, have been completed in all the districts of the state.
The Health department said that one lakh doses of Covid vaccines have arrived in Odisha and they have been sent to hospitals in the districts. The department has advised that people who are yet to take the precautionary or booster dose should avail of the vaccine at the earliest keeping in view the increasing number of infections.
As per records, only 40 per cent of people in the state has been administered the Covid booster dose so far.
Odisha Health and Family Welfare secretary Shalini Pandit said that Covishield vaccines will be administered in identified District Headquarters Hospitals (DHH), Sub-divisional Hospitals (SDH), Community Healthcare Centre (CHC) and Primary Healthcare Centres (PHC) across the state under the National Covid-19 vaccination programme.
The vaccinations will be administered to all who are above 18 years of age, the Health department said.
