The Ludhiana district administration in Punjab has allowed COVID-19 vaccination of bankers, judicial officers, employees of schools and food grain agencies, members of NGOs and journalists to ensure “safety of wider population in public interest.”

Vaccination has now been allowed for journalists, employees of all government/private banks, government/private schools, staff of food grain agencies, judicial officers/court staff/advocates, members of the NGOs who have worked to check the spread of the pandemic by registering them as frontline workers, Ludhiana Deputy Commissioner Varinder Kumar Sharma said.