Uttar Pradesh breaches 3-crore vax mark, to beat Maharashtra soon

LUCKNOW: With more than 5.2 lakh vaccinations on Saturday, Uttar Pradesh became the only state after Maharashtra to have administered more than three crore doses of coronavirus vaccine in the country. As per data from the CoWin portal, the 3 crore-mark was breached at around 2 pm. By the end of the day, as many as 3.03 crore doses of vaccine had been administered in the state.Maharashtra, on the other hand, has dispensed 3.09 crore doses so far.
Describing this a morale-booster, officials in the state health department credited the hard work put in by field staff besides drives undertaken to boost immunisation in the state such as 'Mission June' and 'Cluster Approach'.
Chief minister Yogi Adityanath lauded the achievement but reminded officials that there was no stopping till the entire eligible population is inoculated. The state now eyes to undertake 10-12 lakh vaccinations per day from July.
Insiders claimed that if UP got an adequate supply of vaccines, the state would be able to vaccinate the entire population by end of August. For this, the state government has urged the Union government to provide six crore doses to UP and as per sources, negotiations are on.
More than 7,500 vaccine sites have been set up in the state to roll out the vaccination programme.
Data suggests that 2.60 crore persons in the state have taken at least one dose of the vaccine while 43.17 lakh have been fully vaccinated.
In terms of the age break up, over 80.63 lakh doses have been provided to the 60-plus population while 1.11 crore doses have been administered in the 45-60 years age group. In the 18-44 years age group, 1.12 crore persons have been vaccinated.
So far, 1.75 crore males and 1.28 crore females have taken the vaccine in the state. More than 90% of the people have taken Covishield while the remaining have taken Covaxin. Now, some private players are rolling out the Sputnik V. In Lucknow, for instance, the Medanta Medicity has started administering Sputnik.
Officials said that of the total doses administered in the state so far, 0.005% adverse events after immunisation have been reported.
In terms of districts, Lucknow (13.74 lakh), Gautam Budh Nagar (11.50 lakh), Ghaziabad, (9.93 lakh), Meerut (9.29 lakh), Kanpur (8.7 lakh), Gorakhpur (8.6 lakh), Prayagraj (8.4 lakh), Varanasi (8.08 lakh) and Agra (8.0 lakh) are among the top scorers.
Chitrakoot (1.14 lakh), Kasganj (1.46 lakh), Lalitpur (1.5 lakh), Kaushambi (1.6 lakh),Eyah (1.7 lakh) Sant Kabir Nagar (1.73 lakh), Etah (1.77 lakh) Sravasti (1.82 lakh), Sambhal (1.83 lakh), Hamirpur (1.87 lakh), Mainpuri (1.91 lakh) and Sonbhadra (1.98 lakh) are on the lower side.