INDORE/BHOPAL: Indore has become the first million-plus population district in the country to achieve 100% first-dose Covid vaccination. Agar district, with 90% of its population vaccinated, is second in the state, followed by 88% in Bhopal.
By Tuesday evening, Indore had vaccinated 28,08,627 people aged above 18 years -- 650 more than its targeted population of 28,07,559.
“Indore ne chamatkar kar dikhaya,” an elated chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said. “All eligible residents of Indore have been given the first dose of Covid-19 vaccine. I congratulate all Indoreans for making this life-saving campaign a success,” he said.
With 8.24 lakh doses administered statewide on Tuesday, MP’s vaccine count rose to 4.63 crore. Sources said that vaccination will now be carried out every day in the state.
