jaipur rajasthan became the first state in the country to vaccinate over 1 million senior citizens out of the 2 million doses that the state has administered more than half are people over 60 years of age due to shortage of doses in some districts the health department will give the second dose to those beneficiaries who have completed 28 days after receiving the first health department sources said though the state received covaxin doses on monday from the centre the health department is still facing the shortage as the pace at which the vaccination has been progressing the state requires more doses in the last eight days the health department has vaccinated 1051391 senior citizens and 88758 doses were given to people above 45 years with specified comorbid conditions in districts where the vaccine is in short supply the health department has decided to discourage the 1stdose so that the beneficiaries who have already got the first shot get the second one those districts which have sufficient vaccines are administering both the doses the overall tally of those got the first dose rose to 1979962 and the second dose vaccination has reached 347013