Walk-in jab for 18+ starts in Chandigarh

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, June 21

The UT Administration started the Covid vaccination for 18 years and above citizens in all government hospitals and dispensaries today.

According to an official announcement by the UT Administration, “The citizens can avail of walk-in for on-the-spot vaccination facility. If citizens are not registered on the CoWIN portal, the staff at the vaccination centre will help them.”

The citizens having no identity document or phone number will be vaccinated without the documents at the Mani Majra Civil Hospital, Gurdwara Sahib Kishangarh, HWC Dhanas and HWC Bapu Dhaam/Grain Market.

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