Pipping another record in Covid vaccination on Friday, Uttar Pradesh administered as many as 10.06 lakh doses of the vaccine in a single day, taking the total number of jabs given till date to a whopping 4.38 crore.
A top state government official said, “We have surpassed our previous best performance in Covid vaccination which was around 10.03 lakh doses on July 6. The state government is sparing no effort to trace every case and contain the transmission of coronavirus infection and is now focusing on the importance of the vaccine to prepare itself in a better way against the anticipated third wave of COVID-19. Also, Uttar Pradesh has administered the maximum number of first doses to people in the age group of 18-44 years.”
Meanwhile on Friday, the state also witnessed the sharpest decline in the number of active COVID-19 cases with the caseload standing at 932, a decrease of 99.6 per cent from its peak capped at 3.10 lakh cases on April 30. In the last 24 hours, over 2.55 lakh samples were tested, taking the total number of Covid tests conducted in the state to 6.37 crore. Besides, the positivity rate also slumped to 0.02 per cent, the lowest in the country.
The total number of fresh novel coronavirus infections detected in the last 24 hours in the state was just 42 while during the same period, 99 COVID-19 patients recovered across the state.
Where other states have been witnessing a surge in fresh coronavirus infections (daily cases in the range of 14,000-3,000), Uttar Pradesh has restricted the daily case count below 50. In what comes as a big relief, none of the 75 districts of the state reported fresh coronavirus cases in double digits.