Uttar Pradesh on Satruday joined the Covid vaccination marathon by inoculating nearly 21,000 health workers and doctors, including more than 800 in Lucknow, on Day One of the mega pan India drive.
A total of 317 vaccination centres were set up across the 75 districts of UP, according to health minister Jai Pratap Singh here. More than a million Covaxin and Covishield doses had already arrived in the state thus far.
The immunisation drive started soon after the address to the nation by Prime Minister Narendra Modi this morning.
In Lucknow, 12 vaccination centres comprised King George’s Medical University (KGMU), Sanjay