KOLKATA: Bengal crossed the 2 crore jab mark on Wednesday when the state logged a total of 2,00,12,475 doses administered since the beginning of the drive.
With 3,35,544 doses administered during the day till last reports came in, this was also the highest number of doses administered in a day in June.
Health officials said that with the supply of vaccine having slightly escalated the state is in a position to scale up operations to a certain extent.
“We have achieved another milestone of two crore doses.
Wednesday was also the third consecutive day when we achieved the target of 3 lakh doses daily,” said the director of health services, Ajay Chakraborty, The inoculation drive began at a slow pace on January 16 due to vaccine hesitancy among people, even healthcare workers and the Co-Win technical glitches.
The scene changed in a couple of weeks with eminent and senior doctors taking the jab.
“It took 120 days for us to achieve the first one crore jab mark.
But the second one crore happened in 39 days,” said state family welfare officer, Ashim Das Malakar.
The state government is expecting to get an additional 10 lakh doses by June end and target 3 lakh doses daily.
On Wednesday, 2,504 vaccination sites, including 240 private sites across the state, conducted the drive, inoculating close to 3.6 lakh people.