Port Blair, May 6:   The vaccination drive is continuing in A&N Islands in an effective manner and health teams designated in various vaccination centres spread across the Islands are vaccinating all the beneficiaries above 45, who visit the centres spread over the A&N Islands on a daily basis. The vaccination sessions are continuing in more than 88 designated vaccination centres set up in different parts of the Islands towards the fight against Corona virus. 1112 doses of COVISHIELD vaccines were administered to the eligible beneficiaries by the health teams today (May 6), taking the total number of doses of vaccines administered so far to 1,12,931 .

Port Blair, May 4: There is sufficient buffer stock of PDS items and non-PDS commodities in A&N Islands and the Administration is constantly monitoring the supply of essential commodities in all the three Districts of A&N Islands. This was stated by the Secretary, IP&T, Shri Sunil Kumar Singh while addressing media persons on COVID-19 in the conference hall of IP&T today. He said, the Administration is also monitoring the supply of LPG and Petroleum products in the Islands.  It is in constant touch with the Shipping companies also, to transport the essential items from Chennai & Kolkata which is being monitored constantly so that the supply of essential commodities  reaches the Islands on regular basis during this pandemic situation. 

Port Blair, May 5: The Deputy Commissioner (SA) Shri Suneel Anchipaka along with SDM(SA), AC(HQ), AC(S), and AC(U/T) visited the Forest Training School hostel, which has been converted into a Covid Care Center at Wimberley Gunj. The Center has been provided with Doctor and paramedical staff and shall start functioning from tomorrow under the supervision of CMO Wimberlygunj. This step is towards reaching out to the far-flung areas of South Andaman District and decentralised COVID-19 management.

Port Blair, May 5: The Member of Parliament, Shri Kuldeep Rai Sharma in a letter addressed to Chief Secretary, A&N Administration has requested to provide transportation facilities to the office going staff of essential service departments. Due to lock down, transportation facilities are not available after 1 PM and many people don’t have their own mode of transportation especially ladies to go home after attending their duties upto 5 PM. 

Port Blair, May 5: Shri. Ajoy Bairagi, State President, Bharatiya Janata Party has written a letter to the Chief Secretary requesting to relax the restrictions imposed in the Islands for the daily bread earners to sustain.

Bairagi mentioned that in view of the surge in cases of COVID-19 in the Islands the Administration has imposed various restrictions which include closure of non-essential shops. He said that it is a known fact that since beginning of the ongoing pandemic the poor are the worst sufferers. And the daily bread earners which include tea vendors, barber shops, small vendors, hawkers, fishermen etc. are the ones who are the worst affected.