In what is proving to be a ‘Super August’, India hit the one crore mark on Friday logging its highest ever daily vaccination figure. The figure stood at 1,00,64,032 doses as of 10 pm. Uttar Pradesh led the way by inoculating over 29 lakh beneficiaries in a single day.
With this, August is India’s biggest vaccination month crossing 15 crore doses so far. The last highest was July at 13.45 crore doses.
PM Modi called it a ‘momentous feat’.
Record vaccination numbers today!Crossing 1 crore is a momentous feat. Kudos to those getting vaccinated and those making the vaccination drive a success.
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) August 27, 2021
Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya also took to Twitter to thank health workers and the PM.
सबका साथसबका विकाससबका विश्वाससबका प्रयासयह वही प्रयास है जिससे देश ने 1 दिन में 1 करोड़ से अधिक टीके लगाने का आँकड़ा पार कर लिया है। स्वास्थ्यकर्मियों का अथक परिश्रम व PM @NarendraModi जी का #SabkoVaccineMuftVaccine का दृढ़ संकल्प रंग ला रहा है। pic.twitter.com/hHlUU4q3fv
— Mansukh Mandaviya (@mansukhmandviya) August 27, 2021
The feat is so big that top WHO scientist Soumya Swaminathan also commended India’s efforts in fighting the pandemic. “Vaccination, along with public health & individual preventive measures will protect everyone!” she tweeted.
India achieves 50% coverage (at least one dose) of adult populn – > 620 million doses administered, 10 million in the past day! Congratulations to the thousands of personnel involved. Vaccination, along with public health & individual preventive measures will protect everyone!— Soumya Swaminathan (@doctorsoumya) August 27, 2021
India’s tally is second highest in the world as China has reported administering 20.8 million vaccines on July 21.
August is now also the highest vaccination month for the country now with 15 crore doses given to date. This is higher than 13.45 crore doses given in July and 11.97 crore doses given in June. “We expect to end August administering a record 17 crore-plus doses. September could see 20 crore-plus doses administered,” a senior government official told News18, citing a stock of 4.05 crore unutilised doses lying with the states as of date.
The present week of August 21-27 is also the highest vaccination week so far with over 4.5 crore vaccine doses given to people. India had last achieved its highest weekly vaccination figure of 4.12 crore doses in the third week of June. In August, each week has seen over 3.5 crore doses being administered, indicating the uptick in vaccinations.
Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh have seen the maximum vaccinations this month. While Uttar Pradesh has recorded almost 2.15 crore doses this month so far, Madhya Pradesh has administered 1.3 crore doses this month while Maharashtra has given nearly 1.1 crore doses in August till now. Both Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh have run special campaigns for vaccination on two days apiece this month, leading to high dose numbers.
Nearly 10 crore doses out of the 15 crore doses given this month have been administered to the 18-44 age group, showing that it is the young who are the engine of the vaccination drive. Nearly 11 crore out of the 15 crore doses given were first doses, which explains the government’s focus going ahead on the second dose to eligible people.
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