<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">More than 43 lakh people have received vaccination in Maharashtra till date. Asper report released by health department, more than two lakh five thousandpeople received vaccination yesterday itself. AIR correspondent reports that asmany as 43,02,077 people have so far received vaccination in Maharashtra sincethe drive started on January 16.</span></p>''<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:times new roman;color:#222222"><br />''More than two lakh five thousand people received vaccination shots yesterdayout of which 27178 are health care workers, 40895 are frontline workers, 31880are 45-60 age group people with co morbidities and 105226 are senior citizens.<br />''<br />''Meanwhile, Chief minister &nbsp;Uddhav Thackeray yesterday directed thestate-run Haffkine Institute to speed up the process for manufacturing Covid-19vaccines. Maharashtra govt has approached the centre to give it's approval toHaffkine institute for producing Covaxin developed by Hyderabad-based companyBharat Biotech.<br />''<br />''Maharashtra Health Minister Rajesh Tope said Haffkine Institute has thecapacity to produce 22 Cr vaccines in a year.<br />''<br />''Earlier, Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray had said Maharashtra ranks second inmass immunization program after Rajasthan.&nbsp;<o:p /></span></p><br />
News On AIR | March 21, 2021 3:00 PM
Over 43 lakh people vaccinated against COVID-19 in Maharashtra so far