chandigarh as many as 955 health and frontline workers and the elderly rolled up their sleeves for booster doses of covishield on the first day of the drive on mondaythe least doses of 82 were taken by the frontline warriors while elderly accounted for 511 the cowin portal had a glitch as it asked for employees registration who had already been registered during early doses while it got stuck for an hour for the elderly group r p sharma 83 who took his booster shot after a gap of nine months said we are glad we have been cared for by the government and have been covered under the precautionary dosesthe targeted population of 60year plus with comorbidities in chandigarh is 15600 further the targeted population of health care workers and frontline warriors is 26237 and 22438within an hour i had heaviness in my head but after paracetamol i was up this was surprisingly not during any of my doses earlier but i feel safer now said prof arnab pal department of biochemistry pgi for children between the age group of 15years and 18 years in some places health care workers came late and the vaccination was delayed the ut health department reasoned that it was due to the addition of 10 new teams and there were some issues of training we will try to improve we apologise to the parents and the children for the inconvenience where the teams reached late said ut health secretary yashpal garg a total of 602 people turned up for the covid19 booster dose in panchkula and 127 in mohali on mondaya total of 6823 people were vaccinated in panchkula with 3103 given first dose including 1186 to children of 1517 years of age and 602 people the booster dose a total of 3118 people were given the second dose in mohali 9866 people were vaccinated on monday as many as 5523 people were given the first dose including 440 children in the 1517 years group while 127 people received the booster dose a total of 4216 people received the second dose of vaccination