Bokaro: The district health department has declared that the stock of Covid-19 vaccines has come to an end and they have suspended the vaccination drive for a few days until fresh stock arrives.

More than two dozen Covid-19 vaccination centres remained closed on Wednesday due to shortage of vaccines.

The ANM Vaccination Centre situated at Camp 2 near Sadar Hospital, which has inoculated the highest number of senior citizens and other beneficiaries, in the evening hung a notice saying the centre will remain closed due to shortage of vaccine.

In many other caccination centres, residents returned home after centre declared the shortage.

Residents staged a demonstration at Vaccination Centre in Chas Block criticising the government for the shortage of vaccine.

Of the 64 Vaccination centres operational across the district, only 39 remained functional with their limited stock.

Civil surgeon, Dr A. K. Pathak said, “we have to halt the vaccination drive on Thursday due to shortage of Covid-19 vaccines. The state headquarter had sent 1500 doses of vaccine on Tuesday, which all got consumed on Wednesday.”

“We have requested from state headquarter for the vaccine, and the vaccination drive will only continue after more stock will be received. Till yet since the start of Vaccination drive, we have received 1.17 lakhs of vaccine including Covaxin and Covishield. Successfully continuing the drive more than 1.7 lakh people were inoculated in the district. Remaining thousands of vaccines were sent to neighbouring districts as per state government instructions,” he said.

(Our correspondent)

Woman killed by elephant in Giridih

Locals and officials at the spot of the mishap on Wednesday The Telegraph picture

Bokaro: A 32-year-old woman was trampled to death by a herd of elephants in Kurakuria forest area near Bajto village of Giridih on Wednesday morning.

The jungle, where the incident occurred is an elephant corridor.

The incident occurred when the deceased, Lalita Devi has gone to jungle to collect Mahua, said a forest officer.

Lalita Devi’s body has been sent for post mortem.

The kin of the deceased has been assured a compensation by the forest department.

(Our correspondent)

‘Up’ mask campaign in Dhanbad

Dhanbad district and police officials punish people for not wearing masks in public on Wednesday. Gautam Dey

Dhanbad: The district administration will be carrying out an ‘Up’ mask campaign from Thursday as per which the Covid norm violators will be caught by members of a special flying squad and taken to a sensitisation camp.

The camp, developed at Jharkhand Armed Police Camp at Govindpur, will be showcasing a film apprising the Covid norm violators about the significance of Covid rules.

The violators will be required to pay a fine also sign a bond.

Dhanbad Deputy Commissioner, Uma Shankar Singh said, "Three flying squads consisting of eight women policemen and one officer and four lady police constables and one lady police officer have been constituted who would be visiting in their respective buses in their allotted route and catch the rule violators to be taken to the sensitisation camp."

(Praduman Choubey)