Patna: With more than 6.37 crores, people who are vaccinated against Covid-19, Bihar is now among the top 10 states that have given the highest number of doses so far.
According to the data distributed by the Government Government, Bihar stood in sixth on Thursday night after giving more than 6.37 covid vaccine doses for beneficiaries.
Uttar Pradesh, on the other hand, is in the top position by vaccinating 12.30 Crore people.
Maharashtra (9.38 Crore), West Bengal (6.92 Crore), Gujarat (6.79 Crore), and Madhya Pradesh (6.77 Crore) also found in the list.
With this, the total number of covid vaccine doses provided in India passed 100 crore milestones.
Minister of Health Mangal Pandey congratulated all health workers and the front lines to reach a milestone like that.
Thanking Prime Minister Narendra Modi to provide a free vaccine to all people and Minister of Minister Nith Kumar for his guidance throughout the pandemic, he said, “On December 31, more than 8 doses of Crore will be given at Bihar.
Pediatrician Dr.
Arun Shah called it A historic achievement for the country.
“Nearly 75% of the eligible population has been vaccinated with the first dose and 31% with the second dose,” he said, hoping that the vaccination of children will begin soon.
Appreciate the efforts of health workers throughout the country, principals Additional State Health Department, Pratyaya Amrit, “Today is a great day and we salute all health workers for their extraordinary work.” He added, “the work associated with Covid-19 vaccination will take place at full speed.
We want to finish it at the end of December.
This means all qualified beneficiaries will be given with both doses.
“The Special Secretary of State Department Sanjay Kumar Singh said several major campaign rounds along with regular vaccination helped them vaccinate a large number of people.” We will try to give at least the first dose of vaccines for all beneficiaries by Chhath, “he said Singh.
He further said at The past recent, the number of beneficiaries for the second dose increased.
Interestingly, the number of doses given to the beneficiaries of women in Bihar is more than their male counterparts while in other states, female lags behind the man in vaccination.
Bihar shows that while 3.18 crore doses have been given to men, females are a little more advanced with a dose of 3.19 crores.
However, according to the national average, 51.87 doses of crore have been given to men and 48, 18 doses of crore for women.