The Central Government will be increasing the number of inoculation sites to 75,000 in a couple of weeks from now as a part of a massive capacity building exercise ahead of the Covid-19 vaccination roll out for the people above 50 years
This was stated by Dr N.K Arora, Head, Operations Research Group, National COVID-19 Task Force at a virtual event on Wednesday.
“In the next couple of weeks, the number of immunisation centres will be increased from 50,000 to 75,000 and we would be able to vaccinate about 5 to 7 million people everyday,” he said. Arora added that the country has the capacity to inoculate 1 crore people everyday. “We have the capacity to vaccinate 10 million individuals per day,” he said.
Meanwhile, on Wednesday the total number of people who have received Covid-19 vaccinations in the country reached 68,26,898, said Union health ministry joint secretary Mandeep Bhandari. As many as 2,15,113 jabs were administered on Wednesday till 6 pm.
Out of the total, the number of healthcare workers who have been inoculated stands at 56,65,172 and the number of frontline workers are 11,61,726.