India's vaccination drive is keeping up momentum. Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh administered more than one crore COVID-19 vaccinations during the four-day ‘Tika Utsav’, the Health Ministry said on Thursday.

 Thus, Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh administered over one crore Covid-19 vaccinations during the four-day 'Tika Utsav', the health ministry said on Thursday. The vaccination festival from April 11-14 saw intense vaccination activity with 29,33,418 doses being given on April 11, and another 40,04,521 jabs administered the next day, the ministry said. The total vaccination figures during the 'Tika Utsav' saw a jump of 1,28,98,314 vaccine doses being administered to people of eligible groups across the country.

Notably, on the very first day of the vaccination festival, which was a Sunday, more than 27 lakh vaccine doses were administered that day.

Meantime, India added a record over 2 lakh new Covid-19 infections in a day pushing the total tally of cases to 1,40,74,564, while the active cases surpassed the 14-lakh mark, according to the Union Health Ministry. A total of 2,00,739 new Covid-19 cases have been registered in a span of 24 hours. The death toll increased to 1,73,123 with 1,038 daily new fatalities, the highest since October 3, 2020.

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