VISAKHAPATNAM: Andhra Pradesh crossed the 3 crore Covid-19 vaccination milestone on Tuesday. With this, the state has emerged as the 10th state in the country to achieve such a feat to join major states like Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh.
The state administered about 11 lakh doses as of 7 pm on Tuesday alone. The drive was conducted at about 2,500 vaccination centres. Just three days ago, on August 28, the state had vaccinated more than 9 lakh people. The Union government allocated 57 lakh doses to the state in August.
The state inoculated 2.18 crore people with at least one dose, while about 85 lakh people were fully immunised against the novel coronavirus disease. Andhra Pradesh is one of the few states to defy the gender divide by giving more jabs to women than their male counterparts. Of the 3.03 crore cumulative doses administered, women received 1.62 crore doses.
Meanwhile, the state reported 1,115 new Covid-19 cases on Tuesday, taking the cumulative caseload to 20,14,116. The toll increased to 13,857 as 19 more people succumbed to the pandemic. As many as 1,265 patients were declared cured.
