Covid-19: Two crore vaccinated in Assam

STAFF REPORTER

GUWAHATI: Assam on Saturday met the target of inoculating anti-coronavirus vaccines to two crore individuals even as the Covid-19 situation in the State's capital city continues to worry the Health Department.

Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has tweeted that it is a matter of pride that Assam has achieved the milestone of two crore vaccination. He congratulated all health workers for this important landmark.

The Covid vaccination drive started in the State from January 16, 2021. Since then to July 27, 2021, one crore vaccine doses were inoculated. The department could inoculate another one crore doses of the vaccine in 46 days from July 28 to September 11, 2021. From September 13, the Department has set the target of vaccinating four lakh individuals daily on an average.

The floating population of the city has emerged as the biggest carriers of the infection as 40% of the daily positive cases are from this group. Individuals from this group are getting detected while being treated in the Gauhati Medical College & Hospital (GMCH) and other hospitals in the city.

Even though the positivity rate has declined significantly at the Lokapriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport and Guwahati Railway Station, the city markets are posing as super-spreaders in residential colonies, especially in East Guwahati. The Kamrup Metropolitan administration and the Health Department are continuing their surveillance among the floating population, including traders and other workers, who are not residents of the city.

A Health Department official said the city's floating population, who hails from other districts, is the major cause of worry. He said the trend in Guwahati shows that cases are not rising but it is also declining like most other districts.

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