Ludhiana, April 17: In a bid to further strengthen andaccelerate the pace of the vaccination, the Ludhiana administration led byFood, Civil and Supplies Minister Bharat Bhushan Ashu and Deputy CommissionerVarinder Kumar Sharma on Saturday, has rolled out ‘We are vaccinated” stickerscampaign to motivate people to get the jab.
A brainchild of SDM Samrala Geetika Singh, Food, Civil andSupplies Minister Bharat Bhushan Ashu and Deputy Commissioner Varinder KumarSharma kick-started the drive-by pasting the stickers outside their respectivehomes as all members of their families in the home have received the vaccine.
Divulging the details in this regard, The Cabinet Ministeraccompanied by his wife and Municipal Councillor Mamta Ashu said that this isanother initiative of the administration to promote the vaccination throughstickers, a kind of swag to acknowledge the support of vaccinated people inthis war against the contagion which is spreading its tentacles deeper into thecountry.
Hailing the campaign a unique to bolster the vaccination,Ashu said that it would help to get more people vaccinated thus moving closerto normalcy once again by breaking the transmission chain of the virus.
Deputy Commissioner along with his wife Parveen Sharma saidthat the campaign would help to overcome vaccine resistance and would leadsociety to normal life as soon as possible.
He said that vaccination is the only way to protect thelives of people from this deadly disease and stop the spread of the pathogen.
Giving the facts, he said that the countries where thepeople have wholeheartedly supported the vaccination program and half of theirpopulation have received the shot of vaccine are witnesses very few cases ofCovid so that people of Ludhiana need to come forward and get the vaccine intothe arms.
He once again appealed to the people to join hands with theadministration to contain the pandemic as soon as possible by receiving thevaccine in large numbers in nearby government/private health institutions orcamps and paste stickers outside their homes.
Deputy Commissioner said that these stickers are availablein all the vaccination camps and people can also collect them from the officeof the Additional Deputy Commissioner (Development).