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ITANAGAR, 24 Feb:<\/strong> Chief Secretary Naresh Kumar has directed the health & family welfare department to find ways to push the coverage of Covid-19 vaccination in less covered districts.<\/p>\n The CS said this during a meeting of the State Steering Committee for Immunization, which was held at the civil secretariat here on Wednesday.<\/p>\n The direction came after it was reported that some districts are going slow in terms of Covid-19 vaccination coverage. Papum Pare (Rural), Kamle, Lower Dibang Valley, Upper Subansiri, Kurung Kumey and Longding districts are reportedly going slow.<\/p>\n Kumar directed the health secretary to monitor the low performing districts and issue direction to the DCs, DMOs and DRCHOs concerned to scale up the coverage.<\/p>\n The chief secretary suggested “making video clips from key influencers of the districts like the deputy commissioners, ADCs, doctors, EACs, etc, to address misconceptions, fear or hesitancy against the Covid-19 vaccine.”<\/p>\n With a total of 63,277 beneficiaries (healthcare workers – 25,012; frontline workers – 38,265), the health department informed that the Covid-19 vaccination coverage in Arunachal has reached 27,138 as on 22 February.<\/p>\n There are 343 Covid-19 vaccination session sites spread across health facilities in the state, with Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays notified as Covid-19 vaccination days.<\/p>\n The committee also reviewed the Intensified Mission Indradhanush (IMI) 3.0 and the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine.<\/p>\n Home Commissioner Kaling Tayeng, Health & Family Welfare Secretary Mitali Namchoom, TRIHMS Director Dr Moji Jini and others were present at the meeting. (CS’ PR Cell)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ITANAGAR, 24 Feb: Chief Secretary Naresh Kumar has directed the health & family welfare department to find ways to push the coverage of Covid-19 vaccination in less covered districts. The CS said this during a meeting of the State Steering Committee for Immunization, which was held at the civil secretariat here on Wednesday. The direction […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151431,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-151425","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}