<span style="color: #222222;">In Odisha, vaccination coverage of people over 60 years of age has crossed one lakh mark. More than 18 thousand senior citizens were vaccinated against covid-19 in the state yesterday alone. AIR correspondent reports that over a period of five days since the covid-19 vaccination was opened for eligible citizens from the 1st of March last, the state has innoculated a total of one lakh eleven thousand plus senior citizens so far. Added to the list of vaccinated beneficiaries are people over 45 years of age with comorbidities, totalling up to about four thousand seven hundred.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">&nbsp;</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Yesterday alone, the state has vaccinated above 24 thousand&nbsp; beneficiaries in 236 session sites, with about 3,500 health care workers taking their second vaccine shots. Meanwhile the state government has asked the district authorities to initiate the process of inoculating the prison inmates falling within the specified brackets of age and other conditionalities.&nbsp;</span><br />'' &nbsp;<br />
News On AIR | March 6, 2021 10:20 AM
Odisha: COVID-19 vaccination coverage of people over 60 years crossed one lakh mark in state