Punjab’s vaccinated 50 lakh people so far, says state government

Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, May 29

Punjab said it had administered 50 lakh doses under its Mission Fateh programme, the state government said in a press note on Saturday.

State Nodal Officer for Vaccination Vikas Garg said that as on May 29, 2021, a total of 50,05,767 doses of vaccine have been administered in Punjab.

Out of quota received from the Government of India (GoI) for the frontline, health workers and people above 45 years of age, as many as 45,53,187 vaccines have been administered in the state while a total of 4,52,580 people in the priorities group of 18-44 age category have been inoculated, he said.

“Out of the 45,53,187 doses, 41,40,179 people have got the jab of Covishield vaccine while as many as 4,13,008 have been administered Covaxin,” he said.

Of these 38,01,062 were first doses and 7,52,125 were second doses, he said.  

“In terms of categories, the highest number of 32, 83, 848 vaccinated people fall in the 45 years plus age group while the number of frontline workers inoculated is 9,63,881 and the number of health workers stands at 3,05,458. These include 28,958 people who got the jab privately out of whom 21625 have got Covieshield and 7343 have been administered Covaxin,” he said.

Garg said out of the priority groups set up by Punjab Government for the age group of 18-44 years, 86,101 persons with co-morbidities including 2520 jail inmates, 3,01,981 construction workers and their families, 64,395 Family members of health workers and 1,103 private industrial workers have been vaccinated.

Further, Covishield 4.29 lakh doses have been purchased at the cost of Rs. 13.25 Crore and Covaxin 1,14,190 doses procured at a cost of Rs. 4.70 crore, Garg said.