71% of dist students above 14 vaccinated

Ludhiana: Covid vaccination for the 12-14 age group has begun from March 16 in the district, which has 1.09 lakh children in this eligible bracket. And 64,111 or 58.77% of them have been vaccinated as of now. Also, 30.61% of them got the second dose.The children are being administered Corbevax manufactured by

Biological E Limited of Hyderabad

. Also, 71.27% of those in the 15-17 age group have received the first dose, so far. Their inoculation with Covaxin had started on January 3. Officials in the health department claim that there are 1.78 lakh lakh teenagers in the 15-17 age group, of which 1,27,537 or 71% had received the first shot of the vaccine and 61,966 took the second.