New Delhi: On Day 1 of the Centre’s free vaccination drive for all adults, Madhya Pradesh topped the list of states to have given the most numbers of vaccine jabs.
MP administered maximum 16,69,174 doses of Covid-19 vaccine, followed by Karnataka with 11,11,682 vaccine doses.
Uttar Pradesh came third with 7,15,746 doses administered on June 21. This was well above the target of 6 lakh doses per day, set by Yogi government.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has said that his government targets to administer 10 to 12 lakh doses per day from July first week.
“On January 16, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the vaccination drive across the country since then vaccination drives across Uttar Pradesh have been taking place. In the first phase, all the healthcare workers were vaccinated. From Feb 1 all the Corona warriors started getting the vaccine in the second phase. This was followed by the third phase where a free vaccination drive was launched for those aged 60 and above. In the fourth phase, those aged 45 and above were vaccinated and then from May 1 those aged 18 to 45 started getting vaccine doses,” said the chief minister.
Yesterday, CM Yogi also chaired a meeting today with the members of team-9, a group of nine officials tasked with handling the coronavirus pandemic in the state.
Earlier, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had announced that the central government would take over the nationwide vaccination drive, and the Centre would procure 75 per cent of vaccines and give them to states for free distribution to all citizens above the age of 18.
The Centre will also handle 25% vaccination that was with states till now under the liberalised plan announced earlier.
