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Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday said that door to door vaccination would be started soon in the national capital, and all the population above 45 years of age would be vaccinated at their polling booth level in the coming four weeks.
"We are starting a 'Jahan Vote, Wahan Vaccination' campaign from today. Under this campaign, we will tell people to visit their designated polling stations to get vaccinated, and Door-to-door vaccination would be done soon. In 4 weeks, all above 45 years of age to be vaccinated," said Kejriwal.
It has been observed that not many people are coming to the vaccination centres. Therefore, a team of Booth Level Officers (BLOs) will be visiting every house in the next two days and give a slot for vaccination. They will also convince those who don't want to get vaccinated or hesitant to get the jab to go in for the inoculation. The campaign will start from Monday (June 7) with 70 wards, he added.
Kejriwal said that there are 57 lakh people in the 45+ age group in Delhi. Out of this, 27 lakh have been vaccinated with the first dose, and the remaining will get vaccinated at their polling booths. "People in 45+ age group were not coming to vaccination centres on their own. So we will now visit their homes ", he said.
Meanwhile, amid a further dip in daily Covid19 case count, the national capital Delhi has started the unlocking process from Monday. As a result, malls and markets have been opened on an odd-even basis, and metro services have started operations with 50 per cent capacity.
Covid numbers in Delhi
Meanwhile, Delhi has recorded 231 new infections and 36 deaths in the last 24 hours. The total death toll in the city since the beginning of the pandemic last year stood at 24,627.
The daily test positivity rate stood at 0.36 per cent. This is the seventh straight day when the daily test positivity rate has remained below 1 per cent.
According to the latest data, the number of tests conducted in the last 24 hours stood at 63,610, and the number of beneficiaries vaccinated in the last 24 hours was 15,705.
The active Covid-19 cases in Delhi decreased to 5,208 in the last 24 hours, while the case fatality rate stood at 1.72 per cent.
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