new delhi india on tuesday administered over 125 crore vaccine doses taking the cumulative doses administered in the country to over 65 crore the union health ministry saidunion health minister mansukh mandaviya lauded the entire country for the achievement of more than one crore doses being administered for the second day within a span of five dayshe also praised the hard work of covid warriors and the diligence of citizens in helping achieve the momentous feat of more than 50 crore cumulative administrations of the first dose of the vaccineanother milestone achieved in the worlds largest vaccination drive under pm narendramodi ji 50 crore people received their first covid19 vaccine dosei applaud the hard work of covid warriors and diligence of citizens in helping achieve this momentous feat mandaviya tweetedcongratulations as india administers another 1 crore covid19 vaccinations today highest oneday record of 109 crore vaccine doses achieved till 6 pm and still counting under pm narendramodi ji india is fighting strongly against corona he said in another tweetindia took 85 days to touch the figure of 10 crore it then took 45 days to cross the 20crore mark and 29 more days to reach 30 crore the country took 24 days to reach 40 crore and then 20 more days to cross 50 crore vaccinations on august 6 it took 19 more days to go past the 60crore mark on august 25indias covid19 vaccination coverage has crossed 65 crore 651214767 landmark milestone today the health ministry said in a statementthe daily vaccination tally is expected to increase with the compilation of the final reports for the day by late nightcumulatively 253289059 individuals in the age group of 1844 years across states and uts have received their first dose and 28562650 have received their second dose since the start of phase3 of the vaccination drive according to the health ministry which cited a provisional report till 7 pmaccording to an official source on an average 7409 lakh vaccine doses have been administered daily in india in the last one weekno other country has been vaccinating its people at such a fast pace as indiaindia is at pole position in the number of vaccine doses administered daily followed by brazil which is administering on an average 1704 lakh doses each day the source saidindia administered 17 crore vaccine shots in the shortest period of 114 days which is a world recordthe us took 115 days and china took 119 days to administer the same number of doses official sources saidon august 27 india administered over one crore vaccine doses in a day a feat which no other country has been able to emulate yet the source said adding it is like vaccinating the entire population of new zealand twiceindia then went ahead and broke its own record within five days by administering 109 crore doses till 6 pmuttar pradesh alone has administered 720 crore vaccine doses till august 31in comparison indias neighbour pakistan has inoculated 533 crore people so far