Starting June, the district administration in central Delhi has been running a special drive to vaccinate people from marginalised sections of the society against COVID-19, including sex workers, transgenders, homeless people, migrants and construction workers, to ensure that no one is left behind.
In association with Kinnar Bharati, an NGO working for the third gender, the district administration has so far organised three special camps at Happy School in Daryaganj to vaccinate transgenders.
"We have identified 500 transgenders, of which 204 have been vaccinated so far. Some have taken the jabs at centres near their home," said Ravikant Vinayak Yadav, OSD to Central Delhi district magistrate.
There are around 900 sex workers in Central Delhi. Around 200 of them left for their hometown during the lockdown, Yadav said.
"Special vaccination drives are being conducted for sex workers at Anglo Arabic School, Ajmeri Gate, since June 22. So far, more than 240 of them have been inoculated," he said.
Hopefully, all identified sex workers and transgenders will be vaccinated by second week of July, the official said.