COVID-19: Gurgaon becomes first NCR district to achieve 100% vaccination

Gurgaon has become the first district in Haryana to have achieved 100 per cent coverage of both doses of COVID-19 vaccine, the Gurgaon health department informed on Tuesday.

Civil surgeon Dr Virendra Yadav said that the district is also the first in the national capital region (NCR) to have achieved this status.

Yadav congratulated the entire health department and said that 100 per cent vaccination is just a milestone in a district like Gurugram where the floating population is a major factor.

"The vaccination process is still on as we have a huge floating population," said Yadav.

Thus far, 128 per cent of the population in the district have been given the first dose and 100 per cent have been given the second dose, said the health department.

The data of children between 0 to 6 years and 6 to 18 years is being collected for whenever the vaccines for children get approved. The process can be accelerated to cover all children as soon as the vaccination process starts, he said.

"In the vaccination campaign, our team had started many new initiatives under various programmes like drive-through in malls, third gender vaccination and to vaccinate every section of the society, which was later implemented in other cities of the country also," added Yadav.

Dr MP Singh, deputy civil surgeon and nodal officer for the vaccination campaign, said the campaign started on January 16 this year with the vaccination of health workers.

40,441 sessions were conducted to reach 100 per cent population. Under the Har Ghar Dastak campaign, over 2.56 lakh people were vaccinated by visiting over 6 lakh houses in the district.