LUDHIANA: Ludhiana deputy commissioner Varinder Kumar Sharma on Wednesday directed the various departments to sensitize their staff members to get inoculated under the Covid vaccination drive in Punjab in the war against the pandemic.
Presiding over a meeting of District Task Force, the deputy commissioner said that in Ludhiana, 36,195 healthcare and 24,321 frontline workers have so far registered on the Covid portal out of which 18,754 and 6,099 have been vaccinated by the health teams.
Sharma asked the district education officers (primary and secondary) and district programme officers to start an intensive awareness drive among the teachers and Anganwari workers regarding the importance of the Covid vaccination.