JAIPUR: The figures of Covid
vaccination drive in CoWin app (till Friday) shows
Rajasthan was leading in the country with the highest inoculation percentage, the
health department has claimed.
According to the figures, Rajasthan led the chart with 70% of the registered beneficiaries getting vaccinated. “More than 5.8 lakh people in the state got vaccinated till Friday, according to the CoWin App, which is 70% of the registered people for vaccination,”said Dr
Siddharth Mahajan, secretary (health).
The figures showed that more than 2.56 lakh registered people have not been vaccinated as they did not turn up at the vaccination sites.
The report showed in Madhya Pradesh, the achievement oftarget is 63%, the second highest in the country, followed by Bihar (62%), Odisha (61%), Kerala (59%), Uttarakhand (58%), Himachal Pradesh (58%), Gujarat(58%), Tripura (56%) and Uttar Pradesh is at the 10th place with 52% achievement of the target.
In UP, more than 8.6 lakh people got vaccinated and 8.1 lakh did not get the jab, which is why, the achievement of target remained at 52%.
After successful launch of the vaccination drive in the state, the health department officials will vaccinate employees of agriculture department and government teachers under panchayati raj department. “On Monday, we will take up 6,000 employees of agriculture department and 3,000 of
social justice department while 1.59 lakh teachers of elementary schools will be vaccinated on February 17. Second dose for healthcare workers has been postponed and we will start it on February 20,” said Dr Raghuraj Singh, project director (immunization).
Rajasthan is among the top eight states which accounted for 60% of the total beneficiaries vaccinated in India. These eight states have vaccinated more than 4,00,000 beneficiaries each.