Gujarat achieves target of one crore doses of vaccines for August-2021 in 23 days itself

Gandhinagar: In all, 4,31,68,497 doses of vaccine against coronavirus have been administered in Gujarat under the leadership of Chief Minster Vijay Rupani till now.

While the Chief Minister had set a target of administering one crore vaccines in the entire month of August 2021, it has crossed the target on August 23, 2021 itself, by administering as many as 1,00,18,118 doses, including for healthcare workers and frontline workers, till date.

The Chief Minister congratulated all the healthcare workers for the intensive participation in the achievement.

Out 4,93,20,903 persons above-18 age group eligible for the vaccine in the state, 3,25,84,198 persons have been administered the first dose and 1,05,84,299 the second dose so far, totaling 4,31,68,497 doses.

Even as Gujarat leads among major states in the country in vaccination per million, it achieved another record of administering 5,01,845 vaccines in one day, on August 23, 2021. – Information