Vaccination drive: 58 lakh 2nd doses given in last 6 months in Rajasthan | Jaipur News

JAIPUR: In the last six months, the state government has administered 58 lakh second-dose Covid vaccines at a rate of around 2 lakh shots per month. For the record, the state was supposed to vaccinate 75 lakh beneficiairies with the second dose in July itself.
The health department on Wednesday said the Centre had to provide at least 5 lakh doses every second day for continued vaccination in the state.
In the last 24 hours, 2,54,723 people got their jabs across all districts. On Tuesday evening, the state had received 8 lakh doses.
“Initially, we had demanded 1.5 crore doses for all categories out of which we needed 75 lakh doses for the second shot this month. The Centre had promised around 48 lakh doses for the state while 17 lakh were supposed to be purchased by the private sector. Since the private sector has purchased merely 1 lakh doses, their burden will come to us,” said Raghuraj Singh, nodal officer, vaccination.
He added that the state has been able to administer 58 lakh second doses. “Hopefully, we will be able to administer vaccine to 5 to 6 lakh beneficiaries on Thursday,” he added.