Bengal crosses 1.5L count at vax centres

Kolkata: Bengal recorded the highest ever turnout at the covid-19 vaccination centres on Tuesday with the number crossing the 1.5 lakh count.

A total of 1,60,435 recipients took the vaccine shot across the 1916 vaccination sites spread over the state.   State health department sources said that the state has the capacity to run around 5000 vaccination sites in a day. But the glitches in Co-Win 2.0 was not allowing the scale up. “The 3rd phase of Covid vaccination using the new version Co-Win is gradually picking up momentum. For two successive days it crossed the one lakh mark and today crossed even the 1.5 lakh mark. The portal issue was somewhat resolved today,” said director of health services Ajay Chakraborty.

Of the total vaccinated on Tuesday 54,782 were in the age group 60 plus and 19,234 were in the age group 45-59 with co morbidities.