Vaccine figure in 12-17 age group in Palamu dismal

The article explains that there is a district-wide target of 90 percent vaccination rates for children in the age group of 12-17, but that this target is not being met because there is no vaccine available for this age group. Health officials say that both schools and parents are not motivated enough to get the jabs for their children. Only 38 children in the age group of 12-14 received their second dose of vaccination, while only 75 children in the age group of 15-17 received their vaccine. The estimated number of eligible children in the age group 12-14 of the district is 93735, while in the age group 15-17 the number is 141015. The outgoing district civil surgeon, Dr. Vijay Kumar Singh, said that the less of number of vaccination among children is a matter of concern amid the fresh covid scare. District Programme Manager, Deepak Kumar Gupta, said that "we have no dose left for the vaccination of the children of both the age groups, there is neither any dose of the covishield for 18 plus nor the corbevax for the children. We have only 6530 doses of covaxine with us in Palamu. We have sent a requisition of two lakh doses to the Namk