Uttar Pradesh is leading India’s Covid-19 vaccination drive as data shows that the Yogi Adityanath-led state has vaccinated more than 7.04 crore beneficiaries so far.
However, Maharashtra is leading the charts in terms of providing the highest number of people with both the doses, as per data from the Union Health Ministry.
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For now, more than 63.43 crore people have been vaccinated across the country. Of these, 14.58 crore or 23% have been fully vaccinated, shows govt data.
Only 16%, that is, 1.13 crore, of UP’s 7.04 crore vaccinated population have got both jabs. While Maharashtra has inoculated 1.54 crore of the total 5.71 crore beneficiaries with both the doses.
Gujarat, having vaccinated 4.55 crore people so far, has given both the doses to over 1.13 crore.