AHMEDABAD: Gujarat celebrated the 71st birthday of PM Narendra Modi through a record Covid vaccination on Friday. According to top health department officials, till 10pm the state had administered 22.6 lakh doses of vaccine for both first and second shots.
To put the figure in perspective, the earlier one-day vaccination record was 8.95 lakh on August 31. With the update on Friday, the total vaccination in Gujarat reached 5.55 crore. Several states recorded high vaccination numbers on the day.
“The focus for the day was on 7,500 villages where the rate of vaccination is low compared to the state average. From the morning, over 5,000 teams were deployed with the stock of vaccinations which carried out inoculation at all possible places including public places, religious spots, at various societies and localities, and administrative or educational buildings,” said a senior health department official.
The officials said that the exact number of first and second dose recipients would be known only on Saturday morning after compilation of data. They however added that the drive would take the percentage of population covered with at least first dose to over 85%.
Several hospitals and medical associations across Gujarat also marked the day as organ donation pledge day. At Civil Hospital and IKDRC in Ahmedabad, over 700 staff members took pledge for donation of organs in case of brain death and disseminating information about it.
