The nation accomplished its highest-ever single-day vaccination count on Tuesday, right after administrating 1.33 crore doses on August 31. In August, every day vaccinations crossed the 1-crore mark at least twice. Currently, the total vaccination count stands at 66 crore. The typical every day stock in August was at 3.7 crore doses. States have a stock of 5.21 crore vaccines as on September 1.
The highest month-to-month vaccination count was also accomplished in August with 18.6 crore doses administered. Total shots provided in July was 13.5 crore although in June it was 12 crore. A total of 4.66 crore doses have been provided in the last week of August, taking the every day run price of administered doses to 66.6 lakh.
Almost 50% of the eligible population has received the initial dose by the finish of August. Himachal Pradesh has come to be the initial state to full one hundred% vaccination of the eligible population with the initial dose.
In a bid to boost access to Covid vaccines, the overall health ministry has mentioned citizens would be in a position to access vaccine slots and verify availability on Google search. People can search for the nearest vaccination websites by means of the bars on Google search or Google Maps, which have been linked to the CoWIN web page.
“In March 2021, we started showing Covid-19 vaccination centres on Google, in partnership with the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. Starting this week for over 13,000 locations across the country, people will be able to get more helpful information about vaccine availability and appointments — powered by real-time data from the CoWIN APIs,” Google mentioned.
The nation reported 41,965 new instances with every day positivity price of 2.61% and a weekly positivity price of 2.58%. The total active case load a 3,78,181 instances.