Govt’s target to achieve 100% vaccination: Tynsong

Syllad | The Rising MeghalayaAugust 9, 2021

Deputy Chief Minister in-charge Health & Family Welfare Prestone Tynsong on Monday said the government’s target is to achieve 100 percent vaccination against COVID-19 at the earliest possible.

“Our intention is to complete 100 percent of the vaccination. If we can (achieve this), the restrictions will no longer be there,” Tynsong told reporters after a meeting to review the situation in the state.

Stating that the problem of hesitancy happens in both rural and urban areas, he however said that the government is trying its best to make sure that this kind of fear psychosis is removed from the mindset of the citizens of the state.

Tynsong informed that the target of the government in the next few weeks up to the end of September is to achieve 70 percent of the vaccination.

When asked, Director of Health Services (MI) Dr Aman War said that the situation as of now is near normal.

“From the beginning what happened is that we have said we have to learn to live with the virus so this near normal is approaching gradually so till we reach normal normal till that point of time I will be able to tell,” he stated.

With regards to the high rate of casualty due to COVID-19, Dr War said, “…unvaccinated we have seen that when they reach the hospital if they crossed the variant from moderate to severe, it is very difficult for them to come out so you will see that the mortality rate is very high amongst the unvaccinated that is why we are initiating this vaccination in a manner which is more appropriate.”

Expressing confidence to achieve the target, the DHS, “the period when we reach the 75 percent will be the time when everybody come and work together have the ownership as it is not only the government who owns this, (when) everybody takes ownership, it will not only be 75 percent but it is 95 percent that we are looking at.”