India is gradually inching towards one crore milestone with around 92 lakh beneficiaries being administered Covid -19 vaccine in the country so far since the launch of the nationwide vaccination drive kicked off from January 16, this year. Around 37 people have been hospitalized after the vaccination and 29 deaths have been reported so far. However, none of them were related to the jab.
In a media briefing in New Delhi on Wednesday, an Union Health Ministry official said that a total of 91,86,757 beneficiaries have been inoculated with Covid-19 vaccine doses. He said that on Wednesday 1,87,527 beneficiaries were inoculated.
Maximum number of doses has been administered today in Karnataka followed by Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan and Andhra Pradesh.
The official said that a total of 65,21,785 health care workers have been inoculated with COVID-19 vaccine doses. “More than 61,79,000 health care workers have been administered the first dose whereas more than 3,42,000 have been inoculated with the second dose so far while 26,64,972 frontline health workers have been administered the COVID-19 vaccine jab,” he added.
In terms of first dose coverage, Bihar stands at top position with 84.7 per cent coverage followed by Tripura, Odisha, Lakshadweep and Gujarat. Around 37 people have been hospitalized after the vaccination and 29 deaths have been reported so far. However, no new case of hospitalization and new death have been reported in the past 24 hours.
Meanwhile, India’s total active caseload currently stands at 1.36 lakh (1,36,549) as on Wednesday, just 1.25 per cent of India’s total positive cases.
Eighteen States/UTs have not reported any COVID19 deaths in the last 24 hours. These are Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh, J&K , Jharkhand, Puducherry, Himachal Pradesh, Lakshadweep, Manipur, Ladakh, Assam, Andaman and Nagar Islands, Sikkim, Meghalaya, Tripura, Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh and Dadar and Nagar Haveli.