Ahmedabad: Gujarat celebrated the 71st birthday PM Narendra Modi through a record of Covid vaccination on Friday.
According to the top health department official, until 10 o’clock the country has given 22.6 lakh vaccine doses for the first and second shots.
To place a figure in perspective, vaccination records one day earlier were 8.95 lakh on August 31.
With an update on Friday, the total vaccination in Gujarat reached 5.55 crores.
Some countries recorded a high vaccination rate that day.
“The focus for that day was at 7,500 villages where the vaccination rate was low compared to the country’s average.
From the morning, more than 5,000 teams were deployed with vaccination stocks carried out inoculation in all places that allowed public places, places Religion, in various communities and regions, and administrative buildings or education, “said a senior health department official.
Officials said that the exact number of the first and second dose recipients would only be known on Saturday morning after data compilation.
But they added that the drive would take a percentage of the population covered with at least the first dose to more than 85%.
Some hospitals and medical associations throughout Gujarat also marked the day as an oath day of organ donations.
At a civil hospital and IKDRC in Ahmedabad, more than 700 staff members took an appointment for organ contributions in the case of brain death and disseminated information about it.