Rajasthan
Rajasthan now fourth in country to administer over 3 crore doses | Jaipur News
JAIPUR: Rajasthan on Friday reached the number four position in the country in terms of administering over 3 crore doses for Covid-19 cure. Also, 31% of the total population of the state has now got at least one dose.
On Friday, by administering 1,34,495 doses, the state has crossed 3 crore mark as since inception of vaccination programme on January 16 the state so far has administered 3,00,82,297 doses.
Health minister Raghu Sharma congratulated the doctors and health workers to achieve the milestone, but urged the Centre to send more vaccines to the state. “We have the capacity to vaccinate at least 15 lakh people per day. I repeat my request to the Centre to send timely vaccines in bigger quantity,” he added.
Rajasthan is now the fourth state after Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and Gujarat where more than 3 crore vaccines have been administered.
However, the crisis of vaccines continued on Friday as no fresh lot arrived. “On Saturday, more than 90% of the vaccination centres in at least 25 districts would face crisis and be affected as we have very few vaccines left,” said Dr Raghuraj Singh, nodal officer, vaccination.
On Friday, only 1.09 lakh vaccine doses arrived, which were issued to Jaipur, Sikar, Kota and Ajmer.
On Friday, by administering 1,34,495 doses, the state has crossed 3 crore mark as since inception of vaccination programme on January 16 the state so far has administered 3,00,82,297 doses.
Health minister Raghu Sharma congratulated the doctors and health workers to achieve the milestone, but urged the Centre to send more vaccines to the state. “We have the capacity to vaccinate at least 15 lakh people per day. I repeat my request to the Centre to send timely vaccines in bigger quantity,” he added.
Rajasthan is now the fourth state after Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and Gujarat where more than 3 crore vaccines have been administered.
However, the crisis of vaccines continued on Friday as no fresh lot arrived. “On Saturday, more than 90% of the vaccination centres in at least 25 districts would face crisis and be affected as we have very few vaccines left,” said Dr Raghuraj Singh, nodal officer, vaccination.
On Friday, only 1.09 lakh vaccine doses arrived, which were issued to Jaipur, Sikar, Kota and Ajmer.
