Uttar Pradesh achieved a major milestone in the COVID-19 vaccination by completing one crore doses in just 24 days under the ambitious ‘Mission June’.
The state government vaccinated more than 8 lakh people on Thursday, taking the cumulative doses to over 2.88 crore. From July 1 onwards, the UP government aims to achieve the next big target of administering around 10 lakh doses a day and getting to the landmark of 10 crore doses by the end of August.
Expressing happiness over achieving the feat, Additional Chief Secretary (Information) Navneet Sehgal said here on Thursday that the drive was organised on the directions of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to cover the maximum number of people. UP has set a new record by administering one crore doses a week before the set time period.”
Sehgal added that there has been no wastage of Covid vaccine doses during the mega drive. The pace of vaccination in UP is currently high as the daily doses are around 8 lakh per day. The change in the Centre’s policy, announcing free vaccines for all, is the factor which contributed to the spike in vaccinations in the state. In the last four days, more than 30 lakh doses have been administered in UP.
Under the world’s largest free vaccination drive, the pace of vaccination in UP is the highest in the country, leaving behind Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan and Kerala amongst other states.