LUCKNOW: Nearly 25,000 people rolled up their sleeves to get shot in the arm on Wednesday, setting the record of the highest single day vaccinations in the city since the drive began on January 16.
Total 24,970 beneficiaries took the jab at 249 booths.
As many as 22,471 people took the first shot while 2,469 beneficiaries completed the course by taking the second dose of the vaccine.
Earlier, the highest turnout of 23,388 was recorded on June 4.
District immunisation officer, Dr M K Singh, said, “Vaccination numbers went up because of the increase in the number of booths and awareness campaigns dispelling myths to counter vaccine hesitancy.
We hope to achieve the target of 30,000 inoculations on Thursday.” So far, 12.95 lakh doses have been administered in Lucknow.
About 2.62 lakh people have been fully immunised.
However, the percentage of women beneficiaries is lower than men.
On Wednesday also, 11,021 (45%) women got inoculated in comparison to 55% (13,949) men.
The participation of the people in the 18-44 age group was the highest with 68% turnout.
Those aged between 45 to 59 years constituted 24% (5,978) of the beneficiaries.
Around 1,665 doses were given to the elderly and 300 to the healthcare and frontline workers.