An overall of 10,885 doses of COVID-19 vaccines was administered to the inmates of 3 jails in Delhi so far, the Delhi Prisons Department stated on Saturday. According to the records shared through jail officers as on Thursday, 1,648 Tihar prison inmates elderly above 45 and 5,750 underneath the age of 45 years have been vaccinated. In Rohini prison, 172 inmates above 45 years and 600 underneath that age have been administered the vaccine. In Mandoli prison, 483 inmates elderly above 45 and 2,232 underneath it were vaccinated so far.
Director General (Prisons) Sandeep Goel, “The inmates who obtained their first dose withinside the jail and launched on period in-between bail or emergency parole have been requested to get the second one dose withinside the dispensaries and hospitals close to their homes. If they face any problem in getting the vaccine, then they could technique the prison authorities”.
The vaccination force in Tihar jail complicated turned into released on March 18 for the 45-plus class and the force for inmates withinside the 18-44 age organization commenced on May 18. Since March, as a minimum 383 COVID-19 instances were suggested a few of the inmates of the jails withinside the countrywide capital and 8 of them have succumbed to the disease, the records showed.