Prayagraj witnesses highest single-day vaccination in Uttar Pradesh

PRAYAGRAJ: The Sangam city has set a record for the highest vaccination in a single day as 91,822 jabs were administered to recipients of all age groups in Sangam city on Friday under a special vaccination campaign. The campaign was held at 343 sites on Friday and Sangam city recorded the highest turnout of recipients across the state. Sangam city was followed by Lucknow (86,135), Sitapur (80,042), and Aligarh ( 77,085) in terms of vaccines given to recipients on Saturday.
Out of 91,822 jabs, as many as 80,144 recipients of all age groups were administered the first dose while 11,678 recipients were given the second dose.With this, a total of 23,34,242 beneficiaries of all age groups including 18,57,410 of the first dose and 4,76,832 of the second dose were given jabs in Sangam city. The department claimed to have given jabs to over 50 per cent of target recipients in the district so far as it has set a target to administer jabs to 46.10 lakh recipients in the Prayagraj district.
District Immunization officer and additional chief medical officer (ACMO) Dr Teerath Lal told TOI that the department aimed to cover the maximum number of recipients in a single day mega-campaign and was successful in its endeavour. He further added that all the health staff have been congratulated for their hard work and unrelenting spirit which helped the department to achieve the target. The department had set a target to administer 1.24 lakh jabs on Friday on the occasion of the 71st birthday of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Health officials, however, maintained that they would be intensifying the vaccination exercise in both rural and urban-based sites to cover maximum target recipients. Officials are also making efforts to cover recipients living in remote village areas and teams of ASHA and ANMs have been assigned to take the recipients to the nearest vaccination sites for vaccination.
A senior health official said that the pace of vaccination has been gaining momentum with every passing month and that the department would be setting a new record in September again. Figures too revealed that over 3.03 lakh, 3.42 lakh and 5.18 lakh people were given jabs in June, July and August months respectively.