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• Telangana is the first large state across the country to complete 100 per cent first dose vaccination against Covid-19, said state health minister T Harish Rao recently.

About Telangana having 100% first dose Covid vaccine

• Telangana is the first large state across the country to complete 100 per cent first dose vaccination against COVID-19, said state health minister T Harish Rao recently.
• As per the health minister of Telangana, until now the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Chandigarh, Dadra Nagar Haveli, Goa, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Lakshadweep, Sikkim — only 8 smaller states, Union Territories, have achieved this feat.
• The minister further informed that that state has completed 66 per cent coverage of second dose.