Kolkata: Bengal on Saturday passed a five-crore jabber sign, the last crore came in a record 18 days.
More than 12.33 lakh shots are given during the day and the data is still uploaded until late at night.
The highest authentic achievement for the country is 12.9 doses of lakh on August 31.
“We have reached another historical milestone by crossing 5 crore vaccination and ensuring at least one dose to 50% of the country’s eligible population,” said Director of Health Services Ajay.
Chakraborty.
With 48 lakh doses of bottles in Kitty State on Saturday morning, health officials activate 4,859 vaccination sites, set a target of around 15 doses of lakh for that day.
“At 2pm, we have crossed a 5-crore sign.
This time, we give 1 dose of crore in a record of 18 days.
The last crore took 29 days,” said Ashim Das Malakar, a family of family welfare officials.
The center has announced a quota of around 1.33 doses of crore for Bengal for September.
So far 80 lakh plus Jab has arrived.
More than 40 doses of lakh covishield arrived this week alone, making this the biggest single vaccine consignment to reach the country so far.
Starting on Thursday, three consignments totaling 21.25,816 doses reached the country for three consecutive days.
Health officials said better supply in terms of regularity and quantity had facilitated an increase in vaccination bars.
In fact, 40 lakh jab has been given to the first eight days of this month.
“We need a stable and adequate supply to set higher vaccination goals.
We will continue to increase the speed of inoculation and when we have a comfortable stock to boost the drive,” said a senior health official.
In August, Bengal was to get 95 doses of lakh but received a little more than 1 crore at the end of the month.
This month too, health officials believe it can get more than the initial estimate of 1.3 doses of crore.
Of the 4,859 vaccination sites pressed on Saturday 4532 was the government vaccination center.