Vaccination of 18-45 age group in phased method, says Karnataka CM, Kumaraswamy seeks door-to-door drive

The Karnataka authorities Thursday introduced that it’s going to take up the vaccination drive for individuals aged 18-44 in a phased method.
“The state government is procuring 1 crore doses of vaccine while another work order has been placed to procure one crore more of additional vaccine doses. The fourth phase of the vaccination drive will be taken up in stages,” CM BS Yediyurappa stated.
He added that the Centre had provided 99.4 lakh doses of Covid vaccine to the state to this point. “While 93.5 lakh doses have been administered, around 5.9 lakh doses are available now,” Yediyurappa stated.
The CM additional added the Centre had “liberalised” the fourth section “by allowing direct procurement from manufacturers directly and making an implementation plan” primarily based on requests made by many states.

Yediyurappa additional knowledgeable {that a} third vaccine was being launched, aside from Covishield and Covaxin. “Pharmaceutical companies are enhancing their production capacity to meet out the increased demand. Under these circumstances, vaccination drive will continue based on the availability of doses. The drive will be planned to ensure systematic, disciplined and smooth implementation,” he stated.
Begin door-to-door vaccination for all: Kumaraswamy
Janata Dal (Secular) chief and former CM HD Kumaraswamy Thursday urged the state authorities to start “compulsory door-to-door vaccination” for all aged 18 and above to mitigate the unfold of Covid-19.
“As the state is under curfew, I suggest the government take full advantage of the situation and start door to door compulsory vaccination of all 18 plus population so as to instill confidence in the population as well as to arrest the spread of Covid,” he stated.

Further, in a sequence of tweets, the previous CM famous that many aged above 45 within the state have been but to get the primary dose because of alleged lack of vaccine provide. “And most from the 45-60 age group haven’t received the second dose. Does Government of Karnataka and Government of India have enough supplies to walk the talk?” he requested.
To date, Karnataka has administered 93.63 lakh doses of Covid vaccine for the reason that drive started on January 16. While 79.13 lakh of those have been administered as first doses to individuals throughout classes, solely 14.45 lakh doses have been administered because the second dose.