JAIPUR: On a day India administered a record 2.50 crore doses of vaccines to mark Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s 71st birthday, Rajasthan also administered a record 13.05 lakh doses of vaccines. Rajasthan on Friday broke its previous record of administering 10.62 lakh doses of vaccines per day.
Union health minister Mansukh Mandaviya tweeted, “Realizing #VaccineSeva, this is a gift to the Prime Minister on behalf of health workers and countrymen. On Prime Minister Narendra Modiji’s birthday, India has set a new record by crossing the historic figure of 2 crore vaccines in a day. Well done India!”
According to the Centre’s CoWin data, Jaipur vaccinated 1.91 lakh people on Friday, Ajmer administered 1.10 lakh doses of vaccines, Sikar 93,812 doses, Ganganagar 81,543 doses, Alwar 81,027 doses and Hanumangarh 74,080 doses.
As on Friday (September 17), Rajasthan administered 5.28 crore doses of vaccines, out of which 3.89 crore are first doses and 1.38 crore are second doses.
So far, the state has received 61.10 lakh doses of Covaxin and 4.56 crore doses of Covishield. Overall, 5.17 crore doses have been received in the state, according to data received from the state’s health department. Meanwhile, the state registered 8 Covid cases in the last 24 hours.
The state currently has 104 active cases, out of which 25 are in Jaipur district; 16 in Ajmer; 8 each in Jodhpur, Ganganagar, Barmer and Udaipur. There are no active cases in 18 districts across the state. Among the districts, Jodhpur had earlier registered a record vaccination of 3.08 lakh doses per day, the highest among all districts in the state. It was followed by Nagaur with 2 lakh doses per day and Jaipur with 1.92 lakh doses per day.
