No fresh Covid-19 case has been reported in 149 districts in a week, while eight have not registered any new infection in a fortnight, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said on Friday even as ten States — Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat and Rajasthan — have shown a steep rise accounting for 83.29 percent of the new infections.
Chairing the 24th meeting of the high-level Group of Ministers (GoM) on Covid-19 through a video link, he said more than 9.43 crore vaccine doses have been administered in the country till Friday morning.
More than three crore vaccine jabs have been administered to senior citizens, the health minister said.
“India has also supported the global community through ‘Vaccine Maitri’, under which 6.45 crore doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been sent to 85 countries.
“While 3.58 crore doses have been supplied to 25 countries under commercial contracts, 1.04 crore doses have been sent to 44 nations as grants, and 1.82 crore to 39 countries under COVAX,” Vardhan was quoted as saying in a statement.
The Minister said that there has been no fresh COVID-19 case in 149 districts in the last seven days. Eight districts have not reported any fresh case in the last 14 days, no new infection in three districts in the last 21 days and none in 63 districts in the last 28 days.