PUNE: As many as 2.34 lakh people were vaccinated against Covid-19 in the district on Tuesday. This was the highest number of people receiving the Covid-19 shots in a day in any district of Maharashtra.
The district health department had roped in 200 vaccination sites across Pune rural on Tuesday for the mega inoculation drive. The rural belt registered a record turnout of 1.68 lakh beneficiaries.
Ayush Prasad, chief executive officer (CEO) of the Pune zilla parishad, told TOI, “This was not only a state record for the single-day vaccination figures, but we are sure that it could also be a national record. All the stakeholders actively participated in the drive. The result was the huge response.”
Prasad said, “We had 1.5 lakh doses from Bajaj group and 1 lakh vaccines came from the state. We efficiently used our gram panchayat network for the initiative. There was effective cooperation from the health and police department in terms of crowd management and complying with the social distancing norms at the vaccination drive.”
Sanjay Deshmukh, assistant director (medical), Pune circle, told TOI, “If we get more such private players to offer vaccines in future, we can really boost the inoculation drive across the district.”
Deshmukh said the district received 13 lakh doses (Covishield and Covaxin) in August and the number was likely to further increase in September.
