38% healthcare and frontline workers volunteer for vaccination: BBMP
The Hindu
Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) chief N. Manjunath Prasad announced on Monday that of the 2.43 lakh healthcare and frontline workers, around 93,000 (38%) had volunteered for the vaccination.
He said the State government had directed the BBMP to finish administering the vaccine to healthcare workers by February 25 and to frontline workers by the first week of March. He also said that March end was the deadline for administering the second dose for all healthcare and frontline workers in the city.
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