Lucknow: At least 14 people Lakh aged 18 years and above in Lucknow are now entirely vaccinated as 17,317 people who completed their two-dose covid vaccine course on Tuesday.
Drive is done in 166 vaccination centers: 141 government and 25 private.
A total of 27,150 people took Jab.
Of these, almost 64% (17,317) took the second dose and 36% (9,844) the first.
During the past week, the number of second-dose recipients exceed the number of first dose recipients.
The reason, the official said, was that a large number of people in Lucknow had taken the first dose, so now they came for a second shot after completing a period of gap 12-16 weeks.
“Next, the proportion of populations that have taken the first dose higher than those who have not taken any doses.
As a result, the number of second-dose recipients increased compared to the first dose recipient,” Chief Medical Officer Dr.
Manoj Agrawal.
In addition, the selection of those who have not taken shots have dropped a little because of the festival season, he added.
The mass immunization drive against Covid-19 has begun on January 16.
Since then, 44.4 the lakh vaccine shot has been given.
While 16.4 lakh people have received a dose and waiting for second jab, 14 lakh has taken both doses.
3 Positive Covid cases reported three more people tested Covid-19 positive in the city on Tuesday, taking the number of active cases into 25.
Chief additional medical officers Dr Milind Vardhan said that the three cases of Jawan soldiers who after completing their leave period had received themselves tested In accordance with the standard protocol before joining the assignment here.
They praise from Jammu & Kashmir, West Bengal, and tripura each and have returned.
They were asked to remain in isolation and their contacts are now traced and tested, he added.