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Beneficiaries wait in a queue to receive the COVID-19 vaccine dose at Civil hospital in Lucknow.
As India ramps up its vaccination drive against coronavirus, Uttar Pradesh s Lucknow has administered over 10 lakh (1 million)Â doses of vaccine.
Speaking during a high-level meeting concerning Covid management and vaccination, Lucknow District Magistrate Abhishek Prakash directed concerned officials that tracing, testing and distribution of medical kits should continue on a warscale in both urban and rural areas. He also asked to further ramp up the vaccination programme in the district.Â
Meanwhile, the Centre on Friday said that more than 24 crore vaccine doses have been provided to the states and Union Territories so far.
After the call with the operator, the patient Santosh Singh wrote to Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath and Lucknow District Magistrate Abhishek Prakash informing them about the incident
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Lucknow: “
Humne (kabhie) itni dead bodies to dekhi hi nahin hai… wo ghat par platform bane hain, woh khali pade rahte the, (par) aaj pair rakhne ki jagah nahin hai, charon aur lashein hi lashein.”
Amar Singh, 29, who works at Lucknow’s Mukti Dham cremation ground, had never seen “so many dead bodies”. The raised platform on the premises for funerals that would earlier see few pyres has no place for any one to even stand now, he said, adding: “It’s dead bodies all over.”
On Thursday, when this reporter reached Mukti Dham around 6 pm, four young men were stacking up logs of wood on one side of the ghat to prepare a row of funeral pyres for the next round of Covid cremations. They were not wearing proper PPE suits. Over 30 pyres were already burning, and more bodies were waiting to be consigned to flames.