Uttar Pradesh

• 02 Jun 2022

Uttar Pradesh becomes first state to vaccinate 15 crore people 

Why in News?

• Uttar Pradesh on June 1, 2022 became the first state in the country to vaccinate 15 crore people.

Key Points

• Uttar Pradesh is the first state in the country where 15 crore people have been given both doses of the Covid vaccine.
• Uttar Pradesh, with a population of 19.95 crore (Census-2011), has so far provided more than 32.76 crore doses to the people of the state.
• In order to provide additional security cover to the people of the state, about 31.52 lakh booster doses have been given by the state government since January 10.
• So far, more than 2,45,92,596 vaccine doses have been given to children in the age group of 15-17 years and more than 1,02,11,117 vaccine doses have been given to children in the age group of 12-14 years .