{"id":37503,"date":"2021-03-30T17:39:08","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T12:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=37503"},"modified":"2021-03-30T17:39:08","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T12:09:08","slug":"70-population-need-to-be-vaccinated-to-end-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=37503","title":{"rendered":"70% population need to be vaccinated to end pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Only 1% population in JK vaccinated against Covid-19 so far: DAK<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n

Srinagar, Mar 30: <\/em><\/strong>Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) on Tuesday said only one percent of the population in Jammu and Kashmir (JK) has been fully vaccinated against Covid-19 so far.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThat means most of the people are still susceptible to Covid-19 infection,\u201d said DAK President and influenza expert Dr Nisar ul Hassan.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cAs per the vaccination data from Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, JK has administered the first dose of Covid-19 vaccine to 6,34,953 people as on March 30, 2021. The figure represents 5 percent of JK\u2019s 1.25 crore population. Full vaccination (both doses) has been given to 1, 42,895 people which represent 1 percent of the population.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to vaccinate around 70 percent of the population to bring an end to the ongoing public health crisis,\u201d DAK President said.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen enough people are vaccinated, virus can\u2019t find any host to survive, replicate and move on.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThis is how pandemic will subside,\u201d he said.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cBut with current vaccination rate, it will take years to a decade to reach the goal.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cVaccine hesitancy is a cause of major concern,\u201d Dr Nisar said.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cPeople are not coming forward for the vaccine. Misinformation and wrong perceptions about the vaccine are keeping people away from the vaccine.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cAnother reason why the goal can\u2019t be achieved is because children who constitute a huge proportion of the population are not vaccinated,\u201d he said.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThere are around 4.8 million children in JK who cannot be vaccinated.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cVaccine is the only way to stop the pandemic,\u201d Dr Nisar said.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cIn order to get back to normal, we need enough people to get vaccinated.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe sooner we get more people vaccinated, the sooner we start reliving our lives,\u201d he said.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe best way to circumvent Covid-19 variants is to continue to vaccinate as many people as quickly as possible.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cIf we leave a large number of the population unimmunized, we will not be able to break the chain of infection and pandemic will linger on. And, we will continue to have fresh waves of Covid-19 infection,\u201d said Dr Nisar.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Only 1% population in JK vaccinated against Covid-19 so far: DAK Srinagar, Mar 30: Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) on Tuesday said only one percent of the population in Jammu and Kashmir (JK) has been fully vaccinated against Covid-19 so far. \u201cThat means most of the people are still susceptible to Covid-19 infection,\u201d said DAK President […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29966,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}