Uttar Pradesh: Over 7 lakh jabs given for third consecutive day

Shailvee Sharda / TNN / Updated: Jun 24, 2021, 07:53 IST

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With 7.6 lakh jabs on Wednesday, UP completed 93.03 lakh doses of Covid-19 vaccine under the ambitious Mission June under which it had set the target to vaccinate 1 crore people.

Uttar Pradesh: Over 7 lakh jabs given for third consecutive day

The number of doses extended to the elderly has reached 61.60 lakh (Picture used for representational purpose only)

LUCKNOW: With 7.6 lakh jabs on Wednesday, UP completed 93.03 lakh doses of Covid-19 vaccine under the ambitious Mission June under which it had set the target to vaccinate 1 crore people.
While the UP health department maintained an average 3 lakh vaccinations per day throughout the month, it inoculated 7.25 lakh people on Monday, when the new phase of free vaccines for all started.

Similarly, on Tuesday a total of 8.24 lakh doses were administered which is the highest in a single day in UP. Of the total doses given on Tuesday, over 5.5 lakh were taken by those in the 18-44 age group.
Among districts, Gorakhpur (25,862), Lucknow (25,303), Gautam Budh Nagar (22,312), Ghaziabad (20,421), Bijnor (19,976), Azamgarh (17,853) and Jaunpur (17,530) were the top rankers on Wednesday, while Chitrakoot (2,486), Etawah (2,619), Auraiya (2,718), Sambhal (3,331), Amethi (3,729) and Kanpur Dehat (3,834) ranked in the lowest ones.
Overall, the total number of doses administered in the state reached 2.85 crore by 11 pm on Wednesday. Of these, 2.40 crore persons have taken at least one dose, while about 42 lakhs have taken both the doses.

As per the latest updated data, 86.14 lakh doses have been given to people in the 18-44 age group, while 91.09 lakh doses have been given to people in the 45-60 age group. The number of doses extended to the elderly has reached 61.60 lakh.
Also, 2.47 crore doses of Covishield have been administered in UP, while the remaining are of Covaxin.
Meanwhile, decline in the pandemic situation continued here on Wednesday as well. Official bulletin revealed that 208 new cases and 302 recoveries were reported in the past 24 hours. With this, the total cases reached 17.04 lakh of which 16.78 lakh have recovered.
Health authorities claimed that over 98.5% of the patients have recovered in the state. The number of active cases declined to 3,666 from the peak of 3.10 lakh reported on April 30. Officials also said that deaths remained the cause of concern. With 55 deaths in the past 24 hours, the death toll reached 22,336.

About the Author

Shailvee Sharda

Journalist with the Times of India since August 2004, Shailvee Sharda writes on Health, Culture and Politics. Having covered the length and breadth of UP, she brings stories that define elements like human survival and its struggle, faiths, perceptions and thought processes that govern the decision making in everyday life, during big events such as an election, tangible and non-tangible cultural legacy and the cost and economics of well-being. She keenly follows stories that celebrate hope and life in general.

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