The ongoing Covid vaccination drive, so far confined to two rural health centres in Dhanbad, will be extended to the town at Sadar Hospital from Friday and at Sahid Nirmal Mahto Memorial Medical College from next week.

The Dhanbad civil surgeon, Dr Gopal Das, said, “We have a target of 100 vaccinations per day at each of the two centres and a list of beneficiaries has already been finalised from the state government. The beneficiaries are receiving messages on their mobiles about the time and place of the vaccination.”

The district reproductive and child health officer, Dr Vikash Kumar Rana, said the vaccination drive at Sadar Hospital will begin from Friday while the vaccination drive at Nirmal Mahto hospital will begin from next week.

The Sadar Hospital in-charge, Dr Rajkumar Singh, said vaccinations would begin at 10am for selected beneficiaries. “All infrastructure, including manpower, have been in place at our centre from January 8 when a dry run was conducted at our hospital along with community health centres at Baghmara, Tundi, Topchanchi, Nirsa, Jharia, Baliapur and Govindpur,” he said.

Since the rollout of the nationwide vaccination drive on January 16, shots of Civishield have been administered to beneficiaries in Dhanbad at community health centres of Tundi and Topchanchi.