Door-to-door Covid vaccination starts today

During campaign in the rural areas, women who have no CNICs will also be vaccinated


App November 03, 2021
A woman holds a small bottle labeled with a "Vaccine COVID-19" sticker and a medical syringe in this illustration taken April 10, 2020. PHOTO: REUTERS

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ABBOTTABAD:

To achieve the coronavirus vaccination target in district Abbottabad, the health department will kick off a door-to-door campaign from November 3 to 15.

This was decided in a meeting chaired by the DC Abbottabad Capt. (retd) Nadeem Nasir, where heads of the health department, education and other allied departments were present.    

Nasir said that till November 15 students of all public and private educational institutions and seminaries would be vaccinated, besides door-to-door vaccination campaign, a special campaign has been launched at shopping malls, bus terminals, mosques, imam bargahs, entry and exit points of the district where the health department officials are vaccinating 8000 people on a daily basis, he said.

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He said that non-vaccinated passengers would not be allowed to travel in public transport. During the campaign in the rural areas, females who have no CNICs would also be vaccinated and would be registered on the CNIC of their male family members, he said.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 3rd, 2021.

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