Vaccination meant to reduce the intensity of the ongoing second wave of the pandemic and block the arrival of third wave has to be completed in short time to further the causes of restoration of pre-covid normality in short time but unfortunately no timeline has been set for the completion of vaccination of all people above the age of 18 years. Instead of setting the timeline for completion of the vaccination of all people above the age of 18 years the focus is on target age groups and as such it is very difficult to complete the vaccination of all the people above the age of 18 years in short time. Excepting children upto 18 years age government could have extended the vaccination to all people above the age of 18 years without fixing the upper age limit for the vaccination in the beginning. Had the vaccination been carried out for people of all age groups above the age of 18 years, the health & medical education department would have been giving the figures of vaccinated people in absolute numbers but not in percentage. The people in opposition instead of appreciating the vaccination process are trying to contest the claims of the government by quoting the achievements of vaccination percentagewise as indicated in the government’s vaccination data. Critics of the government and the people in opposition won’t try to prick holes in the achievements of the vaccination process if the figures of the vaccinated people would have been provided in absolute numbers instead of percentage.
Increasing the frequency of the vaccination drive totally dependent on increase in the supply of anti-covid vaccines from the central government is obviously the only option before the government to further the causes of the restoration of pre-covid normality before the dawn of winter this year.
Since the government at the centre has set the deadline for completion of the vaccination process by the end of 2021, a message has gone out that in Jammu & Kashmir also the people have to wait for completion of the vaccination of all the people above the age of 18 years for six more months and as such the restoration of pre-covid normality can be expected only next year. Fixing December end the deadline for the vaccination of all the people above the age of 18 years is one of the main causes of the increasing chaos among the people over the revival of normal trading and business activities in Jammu & Kashmir like other parts of the country. The general impression brewing up among the people of Jammu & Kashmir like people of other parts of the country is that unprecedented longer time span for the completion of the vaccination process would consequently reduce the possibilities of the restoration of pre-covid normality before December end this year. Increasing the frequency of the vaccination drive totally dependent on increase in the supply of anti-covid vaccines from the central government is obviously the only option before the government to further the causes of the restoration of pre-covid normality before the dawn of winter this year.
