India has made a landmark
achievement of administering nearly 7 crore 60 lakh COVID-19 Vaccine
doses. Continuing with its largest vaccination drive in the world, the
nation administered over 27 lakh 38 thousand doses yesterday. India is
one of the fastest countries in the world to administer around 7 crore
59 lakh 79 thousand COVID vaccine doses in a short span of only 78 day
The nation commenced the largest
vaccination drive in the world on 16th January this year with
vaccination of healthcare workers. Vaccination of front line workers
began from 2nd February whereas from 1st of March vaccination of
everyone aged above 60 years and above 45 years with specified
co-morbidities was undertaken. Widening the scope of vaccination, from
1st of this month, under the current phase everyone above the age of 45
is being vaccinated.
Health Ministry has informed that in a
short span of time nearly 5 crore people above 45 years have already
been administered the first shot of the COVID-19 vaccine whereas over 8
lakh people have received the second dose of the vaccine as well. The
Health Ministry has informed that the COVID-19 recovery rate in the
country today witnessed a slight decline and stood at 93.14 per cent. It
said, in the last 24 hours, over 60 thousand people were discharged
after recovery. Till now, over 1 crore 16 lakh people have recovered
from the COVID-19 infection in the country.
In the last 24 hours, 93 thousand 249 new
cases were reported. Eight States, including Maharashtra,Karnataka,
Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and Madhya
Pradesh have shown a steep rise in the daily new cases. Over 80 per cent
of the new cases are reported from these 8 states. The number of active
cases in the country today stands at about 6 lakh 91
thousand, comprising around 5.54 per cent of the total reported cases.
The Health Ministry has informed that 513 deaths were reported in the
last 24 hours due to COVID-19 taking the cumulative toll to 1 lakh 64
thousand 623.
According to Indian Council of Medical
Research, ICMR, over 11 lakh 66 thousand samples were tested for
COVID-19 in the country yesterday. With this the cumulative testing
figure has crossed 24 crore 81 lakh mark. As of today, two thousand 441
laboratories are engaged in the work of testing COVID samples across the
country which includes one thousand 228 government and one thousand 213
private labs.
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