Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh reached a 10-crore vaccination milestone with a style on Saturday, being the only country in the country to do so, while providing more than one dose of crore in just 10 days.
The magnitude of achievement assumes significance when compared to the numbers of several prosperous countries such as Germany where more than 10.6 doses of crore have been given and the UK where the 10 Crore sign has not been achieved.
Cowin portal data was updated until 8:30 a.m.
showed that the total number of vaccine doses managed above had reached 10.03 crores.
In terms of people, more than 8.15 crore people have taken at least the first dose while 1.86 Crore is fully vaccinated.
The Chairman of the Yogi Adityanath Minister praised health workers to give their best efforts and create a milestone.
“This achievement is dedicated to committed health workers and disciplined residents.
Everyone who meets the requirements must get the Jeet Teeke,” CM Tweet.
He also thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to ensure the delivery of vaccine doses needed to Uttar Pradesh.
It is very encouraging noting that the total number of dosages given in this country is 85.51 crores and parts up in it more than 12%.
UP is far more advanced than the nearest competitor of Maharashtra where a total of 7.80 crore doses have been given with Madhya Pradesh (6.08 Crore), Gujarat (5.93 crores) and West Bengal (5.55 crore) occupy the next rank.
Among the regencies, the capital of the state of Lucknow with more than 35.5 doses of lakh while Citrakoot ranks last with a dose of 4.43 lakh.
Ghaziabad (26.08 lakh), Prasagraj (24.4 lakh), Gorakhpur (25.04 lakh) and Gautam Budh Nagar (23.87 lakh) is another district in the top five.
Overall, 24 districts have been able to manage more than 15 doses of lakh, with Kanpur, Agra, Varanasi, Bareilly, Jaunpur, Azamgarh, Meerut, Sitapur, Bulandshahr, Saharapur, Bijnor, Hardoi, Bahraich, Kushinagar, Gonda, Kushinagar, Gonda, Kushinagar , Lakh.
Kheri, Aligarh and Deoria searched in after the top five.
Experts praised the achievement extraordinary but said that the state needed to increase the second dose.
So far, only 11.9% of the eligible population in this country have taken both of these doses.
The data of the State Health Department shows that the 18 plus population needs to be mobilized by more than 45 age groups, because the proportion of people who are fully vaccinated in two categories is 6.1% and 21%.
“Those second doses are due not to waste time and proyitish it.
Although a single dose also helps reduce hospitalization and mortality, both are needed to improve protection and safety,” said a senior health officer.
Meanwhile, the Covid-19 situation above increased with the number of active cases in the circumstances dipped in 177, among the lowest in this country, because only 14 new cases and 26 recovery were reported in the last 24 hours.
30 districts are reported now free of Koronavirus infection with zero active cases.