Delhi leads among big cities in vaccinations with over 2 crore shots, Chennai & Hyderabad lag

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Delhi became the first Indian city to administer 2 crore vaccine doses against Covid-19, reaching the landmark on Saturday, two days after the country achieved the historic feat of 100 crore vaccinations.</p>
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Mumbai comes in at the second spot with the total vaccination count at 1.43 crore doses. Bengaluru is a close third with 1.29 crore doses followed by Pune which has administered 1.19 crore shots.</p>
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Among the metropolitan cities Chennai has emerged as the laggard with only 69.93 lakh vaccine doses having been administered. Hyderabad trails among the big cities with a mere 48.52 lakh shots having been given till Saturday.  </p>
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While Delhi leads in the total number of jabs that have been administered, it also has a much larger population than Mumbai. The figures also show that in terms of percentage of the total eligible population that has been inoculated, Mumbai is ahead with 57.1% of the total adult population having been fully vaccinated as compared to 47.7% in the case of Delhi.</p>
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Besides, in Mumbai, 96.4% of all eligible beneficiaries have got at least one dose of the vaccine while the corresponding figure for Delhi is 85.9%. </p>
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