STATES VACCINATING AT A FASTER PACE THAN MAJOR NATIONS

In the ongoing nationwide Covid-19 vaccination drive, 72.97 crore vaccine doses have been administered to eligible beneficiaries till date and according to the Central government, Indian states are running their Covid-19 vaccination drive at a faster pace than some major foreign nations.

According to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Uttar Pradesh has been administering around 11.73 lakh Covid vaccine doses on a daily basis in the month of September, which is far more than the United States, which has been administering 8.07 lakh doses. Gujarat has been vaccinating 4.80 lakh people a day on an average, in the month of September, while Mexico has been inoculating 4.56 lakh people against Covid-19 on a daily basis.

In Karnataka, the average daily doses administered in September is 3.82 lakh, whereas the same for Russia is 3.68 lakh.

Madhya Pradesh is administering 3.71 lakh Covid vaccine doses daily in the ongoing month. As many as 2.84 lakh doses of Covid vaccine are being administered on adaily basis in France in September.

Haryana counts for 1.52 lakh Covid vaccine doses administered daily this month, while Canada’s average daily doses stand at 0.85 lakh.

In the ongoing nationwide Covid-19 vaccination drive, India has administered over 72.97 crore Covid-19 vaccine doses so far, said the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Friday.

As many as 6,758,491 Covid vaccine doses have been administered in the last 24 hours. With this, the country’s Covid-19 vaccination coverage reached 723,784,586, as per provisional reports till 7 pm on Friday.

Also on Friday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired a high-level review meeting on the Covid-19 situation and vaccination in the country. As per the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), the meeting was done to review India’s present situation regarding the pandemic and the vaccination drive. Notably, yesterday, Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan said India is still going through the second wave of Covid-19 and it is not yet over. Bhushan also mentioned that 35 districts are reporting a weekly Covid positivity rate of over 10% while it is between 5-10% in 30 districts.

As per the Union Health Ministry, India reported 34,973 fresh Covid-19 cases, 37,681 recoveries and 260 deaths in the last 24 hours. Of these, Kerala recorded 26,200 new cases and 114 deaths.