The world’s largest Covid-19 vaccination programme launched two years ago in India has so far covered 88 per cent of the country’s adult population with 193 crore 11 lakh doses administered so far.
However, the achievement came amid reports of detection of B.A. 4 and 5 variants of the Omicron in Maharashtra.
Four patients of B.A. 4 variants and three patients of B.A. 5 variants were listed in Pune, as per the latest report of the Whole Genomic Sequencing. But sources said as of now there is no cause of worry as the new variants are not virulent as compared to the original Omicron.
Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya took to Twitter to announce the coverage milestone. “Over 88 per cent of the adult population is now fully vaccinated against #Covid19. Congratulations India! Keep following Covid appropriate behaviour even after getting vaccinated,” said Mandaviya in a tweet.
According to the Ministry, of the total Covid-19 doses administered so far to the health care workers, 1,04,06,837 have received the first dose, 1,00,38,523 the second vaccine dose and 51,90,970 have been administered the precaution dose.
Also, 1,84,18,839 frontline workers were administered the first dose, 1,75,81,512 with the second dose and 86,14,104 with the precaution doses.
Covid vaccination for the age group 12-14 years was started on March 16, 2022. So far, more than 3.36 crore (3,36,37,974) adolescents have been administered with the first dose and 1,57,55,480 with the second dose of the Covid vaccine. Over 3.36 crore adolescents have been administered the first dose of Covid-19 vaccine since the beginning.
In the age group 15-18 years, 5,93,90,523 doses have been administered as the first dose and 4,54,76,127 doses as the second dose.
A total of 55,70,67,459 vaccine doses were administered as the first dose, 48,93,11,452 vaccine doses were given as the second dose and 7,58,822 precaution doses as in the age group 18-44 years.
Similarly, for the age group of 45-59 years, 20,32,34,041 have received the first dose, 19,06,90,583 have received the second dose and 13,25,064 have been administered the precaution doses whereas, 12,70,79,287 vaccine doses were administered as the first dose, 11,89,27,472 as second and 1,84,36,849 as precaution doses to the people over 60 years. Meanwhile, as many as 2,685 new Covid-19 cases were recorded in the last 24 hours in India, taking the active caseload to 16,308, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare informed on Saturday.
The daily positivity rate stood at 0.60 per cent while the weekly positivity rate is at 0.54 per cent. According to the Health Ministry, India’s Covid recoveries reached 4,26,09,335 with 2,158 fresh recoveries in the last 24 hours.
India’s Covid-19 tally crossed the 20-lakh mark on August 7, 2020, 30 lakh on August 23, 40 lakh on September 5 and 50 lakh on September 16.