The ongoing Covid vaccination drive has gained further momentum across Uttar Pradesh with the Cluster Model 2.0 being implemented in rural areas, under which special teams have set up and asked to go door-to-door and make people aware about the health benefits of the vaccine.
In Uttar Pradesh, over 80 per cent of the eligible population has been administered the first dose of the Covid vaccine while 38 per cent of the eligible residents have been completely vaccinated against COVID-19 by giving them both doses of the vaccine. In numbers, more than 11.65 crore individuals have been partially vaccinated, while 5.65 crore people have been given both the jabs.
Till now, the state has administered over 17.30 crore doses of Covid vaccine and the 17 crore vaccine dose mark was breached on Tuesday. Uttar Pradesh has emerged as the fastest state in India to carry out Covid vaccination. The sustained availability of vaccines and accurate strategy, mainly the Cluster Model 2.0 being adopted by the state government, along with dedicated work by health workers has been responsible for the achievement.
Teams are going from village to village and providing call slips (containing information of place and date of vaccination) to the people. Before the arrival of the vaccination team in a cluster, mobilisation teams are clearing the misconceptions related to the Covid vaccine among the people and motivating them to get vaccinated. Two quick response teams have also been activated to manage any adverse event after vaccination in the cluster. Vaccination is being carried out in combined district hospitals till 10 pm to ensure that no one is left out of the anti-coronavirus vaccination drive.
Eliminating the deadly second wave of COVID-19 pandemic, of the 1,74,886 samples tested in the last 24 hours, only nine samples tested positive across the state. In the same period, another 11 COVID-19 patients recovered from the infection.
The state government has left no stone unturned to minimise the devastating impact of the novel coronavirus and as a result the positivity rate has slumped to 0.01 per cent, the lowest in the country.
The active caseload in the most populous state of the country has reduced to just 134 from a high of 3.1 lakh cases in April, pushing the recovery rate up to a remarkable 98.7 per cent, while the percentage of active cases as against the total confirmed cases is 0,01 points.