India’s Covid-19 vaccination coverage crosses 105 crore mark, says government

“Vaccines to win 105 crores! Congratulations to the people as India’s #COVID19 vaccination campaign has won new praise (sic),” Mandaviya said on Twitter.

This comes after 51,59,251 jobs were given across the country during the day.

Overall, 41,63,11,305 persons in the 18-44 category across all states and union territories have received their first dose and a total of 13,87,13,164 have received their second dose since the start of the third phase of the vaccination campaign. have received. .

A total of 17,42,12,604 people in the age group 45-59 have received the first dose of vaccine so far and 9,52,25,580 people have received both the doses.

Till Day-287 of the vaccination campaign, a total of 20,49,047 beneficiaries were vaccinated with the first dose and 31,10,204 beneficiaries received the second dose of vaccine as per provisional reports by 7 PM.

The daily vaccination numbers are expected to increase with the compilation of the final report for the day by late night.

Meanwhile, the central government said it will procure 30 crore doses of Covid-19 vaccines in November, which includes six crore doses of Covaxin, 22 crore doses of Covishield and two crore doses of Zydus Cadila’s ZyCoV-D. ANI.

Quoting sources, the report said that the price of Zydus Cadila’s ZyCoV-D is being finalized soon and India will buy 20 million doses of it in November.

“There are no plans to reduce the gap between doses of Covishield,” the sources said.

With around 12 crore second doses of Covid-19 pending, the Center is also launching a campaign for first and second doses of Covid-19 vaccination from November 2.

The nationwide immunization drive was launched on 16 January with the first phase vaccinating health workers. The vaccination of frontline workers started from February 2.

The next phase of Covid-19 vaccination began from March 1 for people aged 60 years and above and those aged 45 years and above with specified co-morbid conditions.

The country started vaccination for all people over the age of 45 from 1 April. The government then decided to expand its vaccination campaign by allowing everyone over the age of 18 to be vaccinated from May 1.