Over 391m jabbed as Covid vaccination drive intensifies

India has crossed 391 million vaccination doses, with 3,497,058 shots administered across the country in the past 24 hours. Cumulatively, 391,340,491 vaccine doses have been administered through 4,941,567 sessions, said the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MOHFW) citing the provisional report received till 7am on Thursday.

In the ongoing massive vaccination coverage, 1,02,59,902 Healthcare Workers (HCWS) have so far been administered first dose of the anticovid jabs and 7,467,814 of them have been provided second dose.

A total of 17,749,670 frontline workers have received first dose of the vaccine and 1,01,08,761 have been administered the second dose.

The vaccination exercise, which is claimed to be world’s largest drive, has so far covered 118,017,979 people aged between 18 and 44 who have got their first dose while 4,203,947 have received their second dose.

In the drive, 96,012,486 people of the age group between 45 and 59 have got their first dose of vaccine while 26,271,510 have been administered the second dose.

This exercise has so far covered

71,489,465 people over 60 years of age having their first dose while 29,758,957 getting their second dose.

India’s vaccination exercise began on January 16 this year. As part of the

nationwide vaccination drive, the central government has been supporting the states and the UTS by providing them Covid vaccines free of cost. —