Pune: 1,14,968 Covid-19 vaccine doses are managed throughout the Pune Metropolitan area on Thursday – the highest daily number so far this month.
“This is the 10th time PMR has crossed the number of daily vaccinations of one lakh dose which since the beginning of Covid vaccination in the country on January 16.
As for August, this is the third time we have passed one lakh.
Counting.
Among them, Thursday’s count is The highest, “said Public Health Expert Sanjay Deshmukh, assistant director, health services.
After a record dose on Thursday, the total number of vaccination recipients at PMR had reached 76.02 lakh.
Among them, 55.80.278 received the first dose of Covid vaccine and the remaining 20.21.801 received a second dose.
This week’s fresh vaccine equipment allows civilian bodies and district administration to drive in 754 vaccination centers.
On June 25, a total of 1.41 residents were inoculated in 772 vaccination centers – the highest daily number in the region so far.
The vaccination number is likely to go down on Friday because the stock has run out.
“We have used almost all 46,000 covishield doses on Thursday.
Therefore, we will not be able to vaccinate with covishield until we receive fresh supplies.
Private hospitals will continue to hold the drive in their place,” said PMC Immunization Officer Suryakant Devkar.
As for Covaxin, PMC will only accommodate drives in seven Civic-Run vaccination centers on Friday.
So far, 63% of the 18-plus population which qualifies in PMR has received the first dose of the Covid vaccine.
The percentage of vaccination reached 23% when the second dose settlement was considered in the population of the region.
The total PMR population is 1.17 crores.
From this, 87.42 Lakh residents qualified to get the Covid vaccine.
Pune recorded the highest number of August VAX in August so far
