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1.65L vaccine doses given in Madhya Pradesh, Hoshangabad 9th district to be fully vaccinated

Bhopal: 1.65 lakh doses of Covid-19 were administered across Madhya Pradesh on Thursday. 92% of the doses administered during the day were second jabs.

Overall second dose vaccination coverage in Madhya Pradesh is 96%. On Thursday, Hoshangabad became the ninth district to achieve 100% second dose coverage. Eight other districts are — Panna, Shahdol, Shajapur, Ratlam, Dindori, Sheopur, Umaria, Datia. The calculation is based on partially vaccinated with dose one and the same number being achieved with second jab. In fact, about 41,000 more second jabs have have been in these nine districts.

Nine other districts Agar, Katni, Morena, Mandsaur, Rewa, Raisen, Damoh, Mandla and Neemuch need to give second jab to less than 5,000 people to achieve 100% second dose coverage. Overall, across MP less than 20 lakh jabs are needed for 100% second dose threshold. Even the bottom of the table is healthy number for MP.

Bhopal need to cover 1.89 lakh people with second dose while Indore accounts for 2.81 lakh remaining to be double vaccinated.

Total vaccination doses administered in MP stood at 10,22,83,388. First dose has been administered to 5,20,90,703 and second dose coverage has touched 5,01,92,685 people.

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