The vaccination drive against COVID-19 picked up pace on Saturday as many beneficiaries who had received their first shots on day one of the exercise four weeks ago turned up to get their second dose.

According to the doctors, the second round of Covid-19 vaccine booster dose is to be given to a beneficiary after a gap of 28 days. However, experts have clarified that the second shot can be taken anytime between four to six weeks from the first dose

The second dose delivery started at LNJP Hospital as well and over 20 persons had received the second shots by noon, a senior official at the facility said.

The state-run hospital, currently a partial coronavirus facility, had played a key role in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic in Delhi. Under the nationwide mega vaccination drive launched on January 16, a total of 4,319 or 53% health workers against a target of 8,117, were administered the shots at 81 centres across the city on day one.

The number of centres where vaccination was carried out on Friday stood at 257, with a turnout of about 57 per cent, as over 14,800 people received COVID-19 vaccine shots in Delhi on the fourth week of the inoculation drive.

Authorities said they were all geared up for the delivery of second dose of vaccination for the beneficiaries who were given jabs in the beginning of the exercise.

A senior doctor at the Centre for Chest and Respiratory Illness, BLK Super Speciality Hospital received his second COVID vaccine shot on Saturday, a spokesperson of the hospital said.

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