The Calcutta Municipal Corporation has decided to open five more Covid-19 vaccination sites on Monday to try and speed up inoculation of frontline and health-care workers, officials said on Sunday.
The state health department has set February 25 as the last date for all health-care workers to get the first dose of a Covid vaccine.
With the opening of five more sites, the number of Covid vaccination centres run by the CMC will go up to 80.
Metro reported on Saturday that chief secretary Alapan Bandyopadhyay had asked officials of the health department to increase the number of vaccination sites so more health-care and frontline workers could be given the jabs daily. Only health-care and frontline workers are eligible for Covid jabs in the ongoing Phase I of the vaccination campaign.