India has registered a significant achievement in its fight against COVID19. The country’s total vaccination coverage has surpassed 6 crore today. 6,02,69,782 vaccine doses have been administered through 9,85,018 sessions, as per the provisional report till 7 am on Sunday.
These include 81,52,808 HCWs (1st dose), 51,75,597 HCWs (2nd dose), 88,90,046 FLWs (1st dose) and 36,52,749 FLWs (2nd Dose), 66,73,662 beneficiaries aged more than 45 years with specific co-morbidities (1st Dose) and 2,77,24,920 beneficiaries aged more than 60 years. Eight States account for 60% of the cumulative vaccine doses given so far. Each of the eight states has administered more than 30 lakh doses.
As on Day-71 of the vaccination drive (27th March, 2021), 21,54,170 vaccine doses were given. Of the total, 20,09,805 beneficiaries were vaccinated across 39,778 sessions for 1st dose and 1,44,365 HCWs and FLWs received 2nd dose of vaccine.
Seven States of Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Punjab, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Tamil Nadu have reported high number of COVID daily new cases. These states account for 81.46% of the daily new cases registered in the last 24 hours (62,714). Eight states cumulatively account for 84.74% of the new cases reported in the past 24 hours. Maharashtra has reported the highest daily new cases at 35,726. It is followed by Chhattisgarh with 3,162 while Karnataka reported 2,886 new cases.
(Source: PIB)
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