Average dose per day in August rises to 59.29 lakh
The Government on Thursday said at least 16 per cent of India’s adult population has received both doses of Covid-19 vaccine while 54 per cent have been administered at least the first dose. The total cumulative number of doses administered in the country has crossed 66 crore, said Rajesh Bhushan, Union Health Secretary,
“We administered 18.38 crore of doses in August 2021 alone. The average dose per day administered in August is 59.29 lakh. In the last week of the month we administered more than 80 lakh doses per day,” he said at the routine press conference here.
“That’s a huge achievement and would not have been possible without very effective and optimal participation of all healthcare workers, State Governments and Union Territory administrations,” Bhushan said.
In Sikkim, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, and Himachal Pradesh, 100 per cent of the adult population have received at least one dose of Covid-19 vaccine, said the official.
According to data shared at the Press conference, the number of vaccine doses administered daily has increased from 19.69 lakh in May to 39.89 lakh in June and further to 43.41 lakh in July.
In Sikkim, 36 per cent of the eligible population have been administered the second dose, in Dadra and Nagar Haveli it is 18 per cent and in Himachal it’s 32 per cent.
Besides, in Tripura, Ladakh, Daman and Diu, the Lakshwadeep and Mizoram, over 85 per cent of the population have been administered the first dose.
Bhushan said that 99 per cent of the healthcare workers have received the first dose of vaccine while 84 per cent of the eligible healthcare workers have taken the second dose.
He said 100 per cent of the frontline workers have been administered the first dose while 80 per cent of them have been given the second dose.
More than 64.65 crore Covid-19 vaccine doses have been provided to States and Union Territories so far by the Centre for free and under the direct State procurement category,” the Ministry said in a statement here.