Over 2.28 lakh healthcare workers and frontline workers received the Covid-19 vaccine shots across the States on Friday, the seventh day of the mega immunisation exercise that was launched on January 16 in the country. It took the total tally of people who have been given the vaccine to 12,72,097.
“The Covid-19 vaccination programme was conducted successfully on the seventh day of the countrywide massive exercise. The cumulative number of healthcare workers vaccinated has surpassed 12.7 lakh (12,72,097) (till 6 p.m. today) through 24,397 sessions, as per the provisional report,” the Union Health Ministry said in a statement.
A total of 267 cases of Adverse Effect After Vaccination (AEFI) have been reported till 6 pm on the seventh day of the vaccination drive.
On Friday, 2,28,563 beneficiaries were vaccinated till 6 p.m. through 6,230 sessions. On Thursday, 1,92,581 people were vaccinated and 1,12,007 a day before.
In Karnataka, 1,82,503 have been vaccinated so far, highest amongst all states, followed by 1,27,726 in Andhra Pradesh, 1,21,004 in Odisha and 1,02,724 in Telangana, according to the data available from the Government.
On the testing front too, India continues to register growing numbers. The cumulative testing has crossed 19 Crore, said a statement from the Union Health Ministry with 8,00,242 samples tested in the last 24 hours itself.
The Ministry also said that steadily following the trend set over the past weeks, India’s active caseload has fallen to 1.78% of the total active cases. India’s active caseload presently stands at 1,88,688.
18,002 new recoveries were registered during the past 24 hours. This has led to a net decline of 3,620 cases from the total Active Caseload in the last 24 hours.
The total recovered cases are 10,283,708 as on Thursday pushing the growing gap between the recovered and the active cases to 1,00,95,020 ( 54.5 times). The Recovery Rate has improved to 96.78%.
Around 85 per cent of the new recovered cases are contributed by ten States/UTs with Kerala reporting 6,229 persons recovering from the infection. Maharashtra and Karnataka reported 3,980 and 815 new recoveries, respectively.
At least 14,545 new positive cases were registered in the last 24 hours. Eight States/UTs have contributed 84.14 per cent of the new cases. Kerala reported 6,334 cases in the last 24 hours. Maharashtra recorded 2,886 new cases while Karnataka registered 674 daily cases on Wednesday.
As many as 82.82 per cent of the 163 case fatalities that have been reported in the past 24 hours are from Nine States/UTs with Maharashtra reported the maximum new daily deaths at 52. Kerala also saw a fatality count of 21, as per the statement.