Odisha goes past 3 crore vaccination milestone

BHUBANESWAR: The state administered one crore doses of Covid vaccine in the last 34 days (excluding Sundays), reaching a milestone of administering 3 crore doses on Wednesday. On an average 2.94 lakh doses have been administered daily in the past 40 days.
The state had reached two crore doses on August 18. The latest milestone of 3 crore doses suggest that Odisha is close to the half-way mark of fully vaccinating its 18-plus eligible people.
The state has 3.20 core eligible beneficiaries for which it requires 6.40 crore doses. So far the state has administered vaccine to 3,02,90,777 people out of which 83,31,893 have taken both the doses.
Bijay Panigrahi, director, family welfare, said in terms of total doses, the state is close to the half-way mark. “We have kept the vaccination pace as planned. The state would have achieved 3 crore doses three days back. We didn’t have vaccination for two consecutive days due to the cyclone,” Panigrahi said, adding that a little over 27% of the eligible population have been given both the doses.
The state has 14 lakh doses of vaccine in stock till Wednesday evening. “Vaccine consignments are reaching here before the stock is getting exhausted. So, there is no problem is meeting the planned vaccination daily,” Panigrahi added.
Among the 18-44 age group, 1,55,43,777 have received the vaccine while overall 15,55,50,856 men have received the jab. Out of the total doses administered so far, 2,64,97,911 doses of Covishield have been used. Ganjam district moved past Khurda in terms of cumulative doses administered. While Ganjam gave 32,09,880 doses till Wednesday, Khurda’s total stood at 31,50,117.
On Wednesday, the state reported 565 new cases from 58,635 samples tested, registering a TPR of 0.96%, slightly higher than 0.70%. Five districts didn’t report a single Covid case while 256 more got infected in Khurda with the capital seeing 173 cases against 189 recoveries.
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