Goa achieves 100% vaccination of its adult population

The entire adult population of 11.66 lakh people in Goa has received both the doses of anti-coronavirus vaccines, Dr Ira Alemida, Director of Health Services, said on Wednesday.

With this, Goa's Directorate of Health Services has decided to close down all its COVID-19 vaccination centres and integrate them into the normal immunisation programme, she said.

"The state has registered 100 per cent vaccination of the second dose of anti-coronavirus vaccines. As the process has completed, the COVID-19 vaccination centres in the state will be shut and the programme will be integrated with normal immunisation programme," Dr Ira Almeida, director of Health Services, Goa, told reporters here.

Dr Rajendra Borkar, state immunisation officer, said that the target of vaccinating 11.66 lakh eligible beneficiaries of the vaccine has been completed as they were administered both the doses.

He further said the hundread percent vacciantion does not mean that people will stop coming to get the vaccine. "There will be some people who would be still left to be immunized who will come for the vaccination," Borkar said.

He said the Covid-19 immunisation was taken up uninterrupted even on the days when state witnessed worst cycline and high rainfall.