We aim to vaccinate entire Delhi within 3 months: Kejriwal

New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday said that his government can vaccinate the entire National Capital within three months if 80-85 lakh doses of vaccines are provided per month.

“We want all of Delhi to get vaccinated as soon as possible. Vaccination is a defence mechanism that can save lives. Right now, the second wave is in operation and it is being said that the possibility of a Third Wave looms large. Thus, it is our aim that the entire Delhi be vaccinated within 3 months,” he said.

Mr Kejriwal, who visited a vaccination centre at Chirag Delhi, said that to achieve the target of vaccinating the entire Delhi in three months, “we have to administer three lakh vaccines daily”.

He said the Delhi government is going to increase the vaccination centres from 100 to 300 to achieve the capacity of applying three lakh vaccines daily.

Mr Kejriwal said, “As I had mentioned earlier, there are 1.5 crore people in Delhi above the age of 18. These 1.5 crore people need 3 crore doses. As of now, we have received 40 lakh vaccines from the Centre; so we need an additional 2 crores 60 lakh vaccines. If we are to complete the vaccination drive in the next 3 months, we need 80-85 lakh doses per month, which means that we will have to administer 3 lakh vaccines per day.”

Mr Kejriwal said, “Right now, arrangements have been made in 100 schools and 1 lakh vaccines are being administered daily. In the next few days, we are going to increase it to 300 schools and will work on our capacity to administer 3 lakh doses per day. Today we have come to evaluate the situation. We also talked to all those who were being vaccinated and I'm happy people appreciate the arrangement. All our DMs, officers, doctors are working very hard. If people are vaccinated rapidly, their problems will diminish rapidly.”

Mr Kejriwal said the Central government has always extended its help and expressed hope that it will do the same in this case too. (UNI)