prayagraj to cover more and more recipients of all age groups for vaccination the health department has decided to hold a special mega vaccination camp at the district level on friday the department has taken several initiatives to cover at least 50 of the targeted recipients of all age groups in sangam city by september 15 the districtlevel mega vaccination drive will help health officials to achieve this targethealth authorities have aimed to cover around 75000 recipients of all age groups at more than 300 sites on friday till september 8 as per the health department jabs have been given to 2064303 recipients including 1640515 recipients of first dose and 423788 recipients of second dosethe district health authorities have set a target to administer jabs to 4610 lakh beneficiaries till september 7 it has already crossed the 2064 lakh mark as many as 581207 recipients were vaccinated in the month of august alonethe number of recipients who got vaccinated till june 1 was 581234 which rose to 884249 on june 30 said a senior health official till july 1 a total of 852932 people were vaccinated the count reached 1195224 in the city by july 30 people informed the officialthe health department figures claimed that over 303 lakh and 342 lakh people were given jabs in the months of june and july respectively district immunization officer dio and additional chief medical officer acmo dr teerath lal told toi we are holding a special mega vaccination drive at the district level on friday to cover more and more recipients of all age groups living in villages blocks and urban areas he added that three special camps so far including two in the last month august 5 and 27 and one this month september 6 has helped the department to cover over 233 lakh eligible recipients for vaccination the response was way better than expected he saidroughly 45 of the targeted recipients have received jabs and over 9 are fully vaccinated in the district so far