Health teams and the volunteers have been assigned the task to convince and vaccinate 40 per cent population of four districts, including Lahore, Faisalabad, Multan and Gujanwala, and 70 per cent of Rawalpindi. AFP/File
LAHORE: The Punjab government on Monday kicked off a door-to-door vaccination campaign in five major high-risk districts of the province Lahore, Rawalpindi, Faisalabad, Multan and Gujranwala.
Health teams and the volunteers have been assigned the task to convince and vaccinate 40 per cent population of four districts, including Lahore, Faisalabad, Multan and Gujanwala, and 70 per cent of Rawalpindi.
In Lahore, Punjab Health Minister Prof Yasmin Rashid launched the door-to-door vaccination drive by inaugurating a first centre at Shah Jamal where Deputy Commissioner Mudasar Riaz Malik was also present.
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Rawalpindi: A two-week-long door-to-door coronavirus vaccination campaign would commence in Rawalpindi from today (Monday)
Talking to the media persons, District Health Authority spokesman Dr. Waqar Ahmed said that 356 teams would go door-to-door and administer the anti-COVID vaccine to 1,299,838 people above 18 years of age in all tehsils and union councils of the district.
He said that the target of vaccinating 70 per cent of the population of the district would be achieved by August 10. Dr. Waqar informed that the rate of positive cases of coronavirus had reached 6.7 per cent so far which was 2.1 per cent in June and 6.1 per cent in July last year.