On Wednesday, September 8, Maharashtra administered over 1.4 million COVID-19 vaccine doses. According to the officials, it was the highest single-day inoculations in the state so far, since the beginning of the vaccination drive early this year.
As many as 1,439,809 doses were administered to eligible beneficiaries in the state.
“It is the highest figure achieved by the state till now,” PTI quoted additional chief secretary of the public health department Dr Pradeep Vyas as saying.
The total number of doses given so far in this vaccination campaign in the state has gone up to 65.5 million, said Dr Vyas adding that 17,978,805 people have been fully immunised against COVID-19.
The capital city of Mumbai reached the milestone of administering one million Covid-19 vaccine doses earlier on Tuesday, according to data from the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). So far, 10,041,579 doses have been delivered in the city.
On September 4, as many as 1,227,224 doses were administered in the state, which is the second-highest so far.
A total of 6,55,20,560 vaccines have been given in Maharashtra to date. With this, Maharashtra state ranks first in the country for vaccinating more people.
Meanwhile, Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and Health Minister Rajesh Tope have lauded the doctors and health workers of the health department for their efforts in speeding up the vaccination drive in the state.
Moreover, on the same day as the country’s cumulative coverage crossed 710 million doses. According to the Union health ministry’s data, over 7 million doses were administered in the last 24 hours alone. Besides, the country has so far administered 715,254,153 doses as of 7 pm on Wednesday.
The proportion of people who received at least one dose:
Adult population (people aged 18 and above): 48.46%
Age group between 18 to 44 age: 37.88%
Above 45 years of age: 52.24%
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