Odisha on Monday crossed a major landmark of administering 1 crore Covid-19 vaccine doses with a total of 1,00,06,067 doses so far as per the data available on the CoWIN portal. On Monday, 1,68,153 doses were given to beneficiaries till the last reports came in.
While 63,62,201 people have received the first dose, 18,21,933 have been vaccinated with both doses. So far, 20,64,833 people in age group of 18-44 years have received the jab, 33,51,787 in 45-60 age group and 27,65,556 beneficiaries aged above 60 years. Khordha district has administered the highest 13,96,574 doses followed by Ganjam (9,39,285), Cuttack (7,49,665) and Baleswar (5,58,096). Vaccination is underway at 1,594 centres across the State in 1,558 Government facilities and 36 private hospitals.
Notably, the State Government on Monday began a massive vaccination drive to achieve the target of 3 lakh inoculations per day. Meanwhile, the State Government on the day claimed that it has managed to maintain negative wastage of Covid vaccine at 3 per cent. The Health stated that the State has been able to save 2.9 lakh doses of vaccine till date due to the negative wastage.