BHOPAL: After administering 4.87 crore first doses of Covid-19 vaccine jabs against an estimated 5.5 crore people eligible for vaccination, Madhya Pradesh may be on the top among 10 most populated states on first jab front, but when it comes to fully vaccinating these 4.87 crore people, it ranks among the bottom three.
Till now, only 1.55 crore second doses of vaccine have been administered in the state. Thus of the 4.87 crore who have received the first dose, only 1.55 crore have also received the second dose.
This is roughly around 31% of the total who have received the first dose. And among the 10 populated states, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar are the only states which are below this.
Of these 10 most populated states—Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Bihar, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan, Karnataka and Gujarat—Andhra Pradesh ranks best on this front.
More than 50% people who have received the first dose have also received the second dose in Andhra Pradesh. It is followed by Gujarat where 46% of such people have been administered with the second dose too followed by Karnataka where 44% population that has received the first dose has also received the second dose of vaccine.
Worst three among these states are -Uttar Pradesh where only 25% of the people who have received the first dose have also received the second dose of vaccine, Bihar where 27% have received the second dose also and Madhya Pradesh where 31% people have also received the second dose of vaccine.
Sources said, given the slow pace of vaccination in the last few days, it seems difficult to achieve the target of attaining complete vaccination in Madhya Pradesh by the year end.
Even if 4.87 crore who have received the first dose are taken into consideration, instead of the estimated eligible population of 5.5 crore, more than 3.37 crore are yet to be vaccinated in the next three months to ensure complete vaccination
. On an average, close to 3.5 lakh people need to receive second dose every day for this to happen, whereas on October 1, only 1.33 vaccine doses were administered, on October 2, only 93,000 vaccine doses were administered and on October 3, only 33000 vaccine doses were administered across the state.
