Chandigarh, May 29

The state’s Covid vaccination drive today crossed the 50-lakh dose mark.

State nodal officer for vaccination Vikas Garg said as on May 29, a total of 50,05,767 doses of vaccine had been administered in Punjab.

Garg said of the quota received from the Government of India for frontline, health workers and people above 45 years of age, as many as 45.53 lakh vaccines had been administered in the state while a total of 4.52 lakh people in the age group of 18-44 years had been inoculated.

He said of the 45.53 lakh doses, 41.40 lakh people had got the jab of Covishield vaccine while as many as 4.13 lakh had been administered Covaxin. These include 38.01 lakh people getting the first dose and 7.52 lakh who got the second dose.

The 4.29 lakh Covishield doses had been purchased at the cost of Rs 13.25 crore and 1,14,190 doses of Covaxin were procured at a cost of Rs 4.70 crore, Garg said. — TNS