Vaccination drive for children between 15-18 years starts in J-K

SRINAGAR — J-K Government on Monday started the first vaccination drive for children between the age group of 15-18 years.

Officials told the news agency Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that 822 vaccination sites have been set up across 20 districts of the UT.

Additional Chief Secretary, Health & Medical Education Department, Vivek Bharadvaj kick-started the vaccination drive at Government Girls Higher Secondary School, Kothi Bagh, Srinagar.

While talking to media, Bharadvaj said that it is a special day for Kashmir as vaccination has been started for children of 15-18 years of age across India.

He said that 8.33 lakh children will be vaccinated in J-K and a plan has been already devised to vaccinate children at around 1600 sites and the aim is to vaccinate one lakh children on a daily basis.

The Additional CS said that he was hopeful that the Union Government will keep a stock of vaccines available for J-K, so that this process can be completed as soon as possible.

He said that the administration was fully prepared to tackle any eventuality as the number of beds including ICU, ventilators have been increased by many times besides that oxygen supply has been increased by 10 times.

Meanwhile, Director School Education, Tasaduq Hussian on the occasion said that supplementary exams are available for all those students who had missed exams because of being Covid positive.