Prayagraj: Photographing another success story, the health department officials said that they gave the Covid-19 vaccine to more than 71,000 recipients of all age groups on Monday itself.
Vaccination is ongoing even when submitting this report and it is likely to pass 90,000 recipients at the end of the day, the health department said.
The Ministry of Health has set a target of giving Covid shots to 1.02 Lakh recipients in all age groups during Mega Drive on Monday.
For this reason, as many as 376 health teams were assigned to more than 400 vaccination sites in this district.
In MLN Medical College, as many as 2032 recipients of all age groups were given JAD on Monday.
Nodal Officer (vaccination), MLN Medical College, Dr.
Utsav Singh told TOI that a total of 2032 recipients included 49 international passengers, 230 women in Pink Booth and 143 recipients in the Abhibhavak special booth vaccinated.
The fact is that all vaccination cubicles have been crowded from the beginning of vaccination and there are long queues of recipients in rural and urban areas.
The police were also seen regulating the crowd of recipients in urban areas.
Additional Nodal Officer and Chief Medical Officer Dr.
Teerath Lal told the Toi that Monday Mega Drive received an extraordinary response and the portal showed that more than 71,000 recipients were given a dose at 6pm.
In four public health centers in Kaurihar, Soron, Baharia and Pratappur, beneficiaries were given Covaxin, while the recipient was given a covishield on another site.
Lal, meanwhile, said that apart from Megadrive, the Ministry of Health also made sincere efforts to slap more recipients per day for vaccination.
Until now, more than 19.85 lakh Jab has been given to beneficiaries of all age groups.
About 10% of the recipients targeted are now fully vaccinated, while 34% have been given the first dose.
Officials have set the target of providing Covid vaccines to around 46.10 people, including 34 LAKH recipients aged between 18 and 44 and 12.18 lakh above 45 years this month.
In August only, vaccination of more than 5.12 beneficiaries that qualified the lakh finished.