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UP First State In The Country To Administer Over 9 Crore Vaccines

IANSSep 16, 2021, 12:29 PM | Updated 12:29 PM IST
UP has given almost 11 per cent of the total vaccine doses administered across India.

UP has given almost 11 per cent of the total vaccine doses administered across India.


Uttar Pradesh has become the first Indian state to inoculate more than nine crore people with Covid vaccines.

The state has administered a total of 9.01 crore vaccine doses so far since the launch of the nationwide Covid vaccination drive in January, said the official spokesman on Thursday.

The state administered over 3,61,787 doses of vaccine till late on Wednesday, taking the total tally to 9,01,51,915.


Uttar Pradesh took almost 100 days to administer the first one crore vaccine doses. It then took another 45 days to cross the 2-crore mark and 59 more days to vaccinate 5 crore people.

The state then took 14 days to reach the 6-crore mark and 11 more days to administer 7 crore doses by August 28. It just took 9 more days to go past the 8-crore mark on September 7.

This news has been published via a Syndicated feed. Only the headline is changed.

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