New Delhi: Striding towards another vaccine milestone, the state of Uttar Pradesh on Thursday achieved the landmark of providing over 50 lakh vaccine doses to the children in the age category of 12-14.
This is another milestone as the state continues to conduct one of the most successful vaccination campaigns in the country since the rollout of the mass immunisation drive.
Strengthening its fight against the Covid-19 pandemic, the Uttar Pradesh government is providing vaccination cover to all children between 12 to 17 years of age in a time-bound manner. So far, over 2,24,75,498 vaccine doses have been administered to children in the age group of 15-17 and over 50,02,069 vaccine doses have been administered to the children in the age group of 12-14 in the state.
As per data from CoWin portal updated till 1:00pm on Thursday, at least 31.30 crore out of the total 188 crore doses administered in the country are from UP.
Committed to providing additional protection cover to the priority group, Uttar Pradesh started administering booster shots (precaution dose) to the frontline and healthcare workers as well as senior citizens from January 10. Over 27.45 lakh ‘precaution doses’ have been administered in the state so far.
UP is followed by Maharashtra with 16.44 crore doses administered so far. In terms of percentage, about 84 per cent of the adult population is fully vaccinated and over 100 percent have received one vaccine dose.
In the age category of 15-17, around 95 percent of the children have received at least one dose of the vaccine. Over 52.27 percent of the children in the age group of 12-14 have received the first dose of the vaccine.
To speed up the vaccination drive for children in the state, Yogi Adityanath has also asked the concerned officials to ensure adequate availability of vaccine doses in Uttar Pradesh.
Aggressive Vaccination is an integral part of the comprehensive strategy of the Yogi-led UP government to contain the pandemic, along with adherence to coronavirus- appropriate behaviour.
