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The central government has asked the states to plan for the "har Ghar dastak" campaign.
This campaign has been implemented to ramp up the vaccination inoculation drive and make the country free from the deadly coronavirus.
In a meeting of states and union territories, Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan strongly advised that it should be ensured there is no wastage of Covid vaccines at any cost.
This must be ensured through active monitoring and on basis of the 'first expiry first out' principle, where doses that expire earlier should be used for vaccination first, states and union territories were told.
Highlighting the urgent need for an intensive 'mission mode' push to Covid vaccination across the country to accelerate the recent placid momentum, the Union health secretary has advised them to plan for a two-month long 'Har Ghar Dastak' campaign 2.0, during June-July, with the detailed district, block and village levels plans, the statement said.
States and union territories were urged to undertake effective monitoring with micro-plans based on due-lists 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, the statement said.
Witnessing a jump in the daily Covid-19 cases and a slowdown in vaccination inoculation procedure. This campaign is again being started by the government to complete the drive.
India logged 2,259 new coronavirus infections taking the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 4,31,31,822, while the active cases declined to 15,044, according to the Union Health Ministry data.
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