‘Har Ghar Dastak 2.0’campaign to expedite COVID-19 vaccination coverage

Rajesh Bhushan, Union Health Secretary communicated the vaccination coverage to all states/UTs

‘HarGharDastak campaign 2.0’ to accelerate the pace and coverage of COVID-19 vaccination across states and UTs has commenced across the country. Being implemented in a ‘Mission Mode’, States and UTs have been advised to give an intensive push toward full COVID-19 vaccination coverage by vaccinating all eligible beneficiaries. This was communicated to all states and UTs by Rajesh Bhushan, Union Health Secretary as he reviewed the status of COVID vaccination with Health Secretaries and NHM MDs of states and UTs last week.

The campaign launched in November 2021 will be implemented till July 31, 2022. The objective of the ‘Har GharDastak2.0’ Abhiyan is to vaccinate and cover the eligible population groups for first, second and precaution doses through door-to-door campaigns. The major focus will also remain on improving sub-optimal coverage of persons aged ≥ 60years with precaution dose, along with the considerably slower speed of coverage in the 12-14 years cohort by focussed campaigns for old age homes, schools/colleges including the out-of-school children (for focussed coverage of children aged 12-18 years population), prisons, brick kilns, etc. States/UTs have been urged to undertake effective monitoring with respective micro-plans based on duelists of all eligible beneficiaries. They were also urged to review the administration of precaution doses to 18-59 years age-group with the private hospitals regularly.

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