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Uttar Pradesh has achieved 89 per cent of its target to vaccinate one crore people under the ‘Mission June’ campaign, government officials said in Lucknow on Wednesday.
Additional Chief Secretary (Information) Navneet Sehgal said on Wednesday, “Covid vaccination campaign was underway at a fast pace in UP. For June, the state set a target of 1 crore vaccinations and so far more than 89 lakh doses have been administered. In short, we can say that UP has achieved over 89% of the target.”
For the second consecutive day of the vaccination campaign since June 21, more than the target of 6 lakh people were provided vaccine-cover. On the first day, 7.29 lakh people were vaccinated while on Tuesday, jabs were given to 8.24 lakh people. So far, 2.72 crore vaccine doses have been administered, he said and added that more than 41 lakh people have received both doses of the vaccine.
A pilot project was underway to speed up vaccination in villages by making blocks the basis for vaccination. “From July 1, this cluster based action plan should be implemented in all the districts as we have a target to give 10 to 12 lakh vaccines every day,” Sehgal said.
Meanwhile, 208 fresh corona cases were reported across the state while 302 patients recovered during the same period. At present 3,666 Corona patients were under treatment in which 2,205 people were in home isolation. The number of people who recovered from the viral infection in the state has gone up to 16.78 lakh. The state's Covid recovery rate went up to 98.5 percent, while positivity rate was 0.1 per cent. Till now 5. 59 crore tests have been done in the state. In the last 24 hours, 2.69 lakh Covid tests were conducted in the state.