PM Modi pitches door-to-door Covid-19 vaccination in review meet

Warns that a new crisis can come; asks officials to take religious leaders' help in tackling rumours

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said health workers should conduct door-to-door vaccinations as he conducted a review meeting on districts that have low vaccination rates.

The drive needs to be taken to each household with the mantra of Har Ghar Dastak (knock on every door), he said. 

Modi interacted with district magistrates of around 45 districts in Jharkhand, Manipur, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, and other states. These have less than 50 per cent coverage of the first dose and low coverage of the second dose of the Covid vaccine. 

Modi cautioned against any laxity, saying “a new crisis can come”. The