new delhi raising concerns over considerably slow pace of covid19 vaccination across states and uts the centre has urged them to significantly step up pace and expedite full vaccination coverage to all eligible beneficiaries highlighting the urgent need for an intensive mission mode push to covid19 vaccination across the country to accelerate the recent slackening momentum health secretary rajesh bhushan has advised states and uts to plan for a twomonth long har ghar dastak campaign during junejuly with detailed district block and village levels plansthe objective of the har ghar dastak20 abhiyan is to vaccinate and saturate the eligible population groups for first second and precaution doses through doortodoor campaigns with focussed campaigns for old age homes schoolscolleges including the outofschool children for focussed coverage of children aged 1218 years population prisons brick kilns the government saidthe coverage of precaution dose among elderly of 60 years and above age is also suboptimal along with considerably slower speed of coverage in the 1214 years cohort the health ministry said underlining the need for states and uts to undertake effective monitoring with microplans based on duelists of all eligible beneficiaries the centre also urged states to review administration of precaution dose to 1859 years agegroup with the private hospitals on a regular basisunderscoring that vaccine is a precious national resource the centre advised states to ensure that there is no wastage of covid19 vaccines at any cost this must be ensured through the first expiry first out principle where doses that expire earlier should be used first the government said