One-hundred-and-seventy-seven members of the LGBTQ community were vaccinated at a special camp on Wednesday, organised by the Calcutta Municipal Corporation and the state women and child development and social welfare department.

The one-day camp was held at Jadavpur’s Bidhanpally. The health department had identified transgenders and sex workers as priority groups for Covid vaccination.

“LGBTQ persons face a lot of discrimination in society. They do not feel very comfortable getting vaccinated at a ward health clinic or in a hospital. But they always feel comfortable to get jabs in special camps,” said Amrita Sarkar, the assistant secretary of Samabhabona, an organisation of the LGBTQ community.

Second dose

The CMC has decided to administer only second doses from all its 190 jab centres on Friday and Saturday because of a shortage of vaccines. Each ward health clinic will get about 100 doses on Thursday.

Both first and second doses will be administered on Thursday.