Vaccination drive in Kolkata for students begins today – Times of India

KOLKATA: One of the biggest Covid-19 immunization drives for students is scheduled to begin on Thursday. This is being perceived as a preparatory arrangement for reopening campuses after the festive season.
The KMC has done the final preparations to conduct the vaccination drive for the city’s college students. The civic body’s health department is launching its drive on Thursday. While the civic body’s vaccinators will visit some of the city’s select colleges for the drive, in some cases the students will come to the KMC vaccination clinics and centres.
A KMC team will visit Surendranath College for the drive on Thursday. “We have identified the college auditorium as the perfect vaccination venue,” a KMC health department senior official said. The vaccination drive here will begin from 11 am.
Students of Maulana Azad College will gets their jabs at a KMC run vaccination clinic at Collins Lane. Students of Shibnath Shastri College will visit a vaccination centre near Golpark to get their first dose.
Several north and central Kolkata colleges that include Goenka College Maharaj Manindra Chandra College and Maharani Kasiswari College will also join the vaccination drive.
At Maulana Azad College the students have been allotted slots depending on their semesters. “Vaccination will be carried out in a KMC clinic in the locality. The dates are September 30, October 4 and October 7. Students must carry an identity proof of the college along with other documents,” said an official of the college.
Jadavpur University is conducting vaccination on the campus for students and research scholars followed by teaching and non-teaching staff. The camp will be held in the JU campus from 11 am on Thursday.
With the state government keen to complete the vaccination process before Durga Puja, the deadline was set on October 8 last Friday. Within the next 10 days, 57,419 students will have to be inoculated. Of them, 19,902 students will require the first dose and 37,517 students will require the second dose.
“The students have been informed about their slots. They will have to register on Co-Win and carry an identity card,” said an official.
Students at JU along with students at Presidency University and Calcutta University have been demanding free vaccination for all the students and gradual reopening of the campuses.
Students who have not received the first dose will be vaccinated on priority basis. They will be administered Covishield.
(With inputs from Saikat Ray and Poulami Roy Banerjee)