Day 1 of India's new COVID-19 vaccine policy: Record 85L doses administered, 'numbers gladdening', tweets PM

Madhya Pradesh administered the highest number of vaccines today with 15,42,632 jabs, followed by Karnataka with 10,67,734, Uttar Pradesh with 6,74,546 India on Monday administered a record 85.96 lakh COVID-19 vaccine doses on day one of the country’s new inoculation strategy in which the Central Government provided free vaccines against COVID-19 to adults across states. The Centre’s new policy came days after Supreme Court slammed the ongoing vaccination drive for the 18-44 age group and called it “arbitrary and irrational.” Which were the leading states in the vaccination drive Madhya Pradesh administered the highest number of vaccines today with 15,42,632 jabs, followed by Karnataka with 10,67,734, Uttar Pradesh with 6,74,546. State/UT Vaccines Andaman and Nicobar Islands 783 Andhra Pradesh 47328 Arunachal Pradesh 12892 Assam 330707 Bihar 470352 Chandigarh 6738 Chhattisgarh 84638 Dadra and Nagar Haveli 4176 Delhi 76216 Goa 15586 Gujarat 502173 Haryana 472659 Himachal Pradesh 98169 Jammu and Kashmir 32822 Jharkhand 82708 Karnataka 1067734 Kerala 261201 Ladakh 1288 Lakshadweep 289 Madhya Pradesh 1542632 Maharashtra 378945 Manipur 6589 Meghalaya 13052 Mizoram 17048 Nagaland 9745 Odisha 280106 Puducherry 17207 Punjab 90503 Rajasthan 430439 Sikkim 11831 Tamil Nadu 328321 Telangana 146302 Tripura 141848 Uttar Pradesh 674546 Uttarakhand 115376 West Bengal 317991 Daman and Diu 4374 The vaccination figures India reported in 12 hours on Monday are equivalent to 12 percent of UK’s population, 11.9 percent of France, 13.3 percent of Italy, 21.27 percent of Canada, 29.78 percent of Scandinavian population, 9.63 percent of Germany, and 31.5 percent of Australia. Under the National COVID Vaccination Program, from 16 January to 30 April, 100 percent of vaccine doses were procured by the Government of India and provided free of cost to state governments.