Day Before Its National Record, Madhya Pradesh Vaccinated A Mere 4,100

Up to 88.09 lakh COVID-19 vaccine doses were administered across India on June 21, the highest single-day coverage till now.

Madhya Pradesh set a national record on June 21 by administering 16,91,967 COVID-19 vaccines. Yet, a day earlier, it inoculating only 4,098 people, according to a health bulletin issued by the state government. Similarly, the number of people who were administered the vaccine on June 18 and 19 was also considerably lower at 11,742 and 24,700, respectively. Compared to these, 1,27,130 people were inoculated on June 17 and 3,50,356 on June 16. "Our Chief Minister had targeted 10 lakh doses on June 21, but the enormous public response actually resulted in 16.95 lakh plus doses," Vishwas Sarang, the Madhya Pradesh Medical Education Minister, told NDTV when asked about such major variance. He said up to 21,29,400 doses were allocated for Monday's mega campaign, which saw 16.95 lakh doses administered free of cost at 14,500 government and private medical facilities.