Over 1 lakh beneficiaries get jabs in Pune district

PUNE: The district on Tuesday recorded its seventh over one-lakh vaccination in a single day in September with around 1.01 lakh beneficiaries getting the jabs until 7pm.
Sanjay Deshmukh, assistant director (medical), Pune circle, said the consistent supply of vaccines gave the much necessary boost to the vaccination drive in September. He said the Pune district was getting a healthy number of vaccines compared to other districts because of its consistent performance.

The district is inching closer to administering one crore doses.Till Tuesday, the total vaccine doses administered in the district was 98.99 lakh. Of them, 68.81 lakh were first doses and 30.17 lakh were the second.
“Our instructions are clear to all the units — exhaust vaccines at the earliest to get the new stock. Now that Pune rural is exhausting and vaccinating more number of people, we are allotting them more doses. The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) comes second,” Deshmukh said, adding that Solapur and Satara districts under the Pune circle of the state health services had also improved their vaccination count.