LUCKNOW: In just a matter of 10 days, Uttar Pradesh conducted over one crore vaccinations, achieving the record of being the first and only state in the country to inoculate 13 crore of its adult eligible population against Covid-19.
The milestone was announced by chief minister Yogi Adityanath on social media calling the jabs ‘victory vaccine.’
Earlier, on October 19, UP had become the first state in the country to have given jabs to 12 crore of its population, which was also a record. Of the 13 crore vaccinated in UP till now, 9.78 crores have received the first dose of the Covid vaccine, while 3.21 crore people have received both doses of the vaccine against novel coronavirus infection.
Maharashtra is the second in line from UP in vaccination numbers and has conducted over 9 crore vaccines till now.
Prior to this in July, UP had broken its own record by conducting 10 lakh jabs in a single day. This was followed by the maximum number of Covid tests conducted by the state. With over 7.34 crore Covid tests, UP had become the first state to have crossed the milestone of conducting seven crore tests.
