NEW DELHI: The Centre on Tuesday said door-to-door vaccination against Covid-19 may not be feasible, even as it asked states to ensure 100% saturation of vaccination of the priority age group of those above 45 years in the next fortnight, particularly in high burden districts seeing a surge of fresh cases.
Despite rapidly rising number of Covid-19 cases, vaccination is yet to pick up in many states. The government is expecting a fast uptake in vaccination from April 1, when all those above 45 years become eligible to receive the shots.
“We now have the confidence to accelerate vaccination. People must give up hesitancy and embrace the vaccine,” Niti Aayog member-health Dr V K Paul said.
While India administered over 6.2 crore doses of vaccines till 7 pm on Tuesday, only about 90.1 lakh people have been fully vaccinated since January 16.
However, the government maintained that door-to-door vaccination was not feasible with an injectable vaccine for adults and there could be safety concerns in conducting the activity outside hospital settings.