A record 82 lakh doses of the Covid-19 vaccines had been administered on Day 1 of the new vaccination phase. In this phase, the government will accelerate and expand the scope of vaccinations by delivering vaccines totally free of price to the states and Union Territories to immunise all more than the age of 18.
The Centre will be procuring 75% of the doses from vaccine makers though the remaining 25% will be procured by the private sector. Till late evening 82.70 lakh doses had been administered at 67,839 vaccination centres across the nation.
The government expects to be capable to procure 75 crore doses of Covishield and 55 crore doses of Covaxin in between August and December. It ordered 44 crore doses of Covishield and Covaxin in the very first week of June.
Another 25 crore doses of Covishield from Serum Institute of India and 19 crore doses of Covaxin from Bharat Biotech are anticipated quickly.
The everyday typical of jabs administered last week was about 22,000 though prior to that it was about 30,000 doses.
Till Monday morning, the government had supplied 29.10 crore vaccine does to the states and UTs.
On Sunday, the country’s vaccination tally crossed the 28-crore mark to attain 28,00,36,898 doses with almost 2.11 crore men and women more than 60 and 1.27 crore citizens in between 45 and 59 years getting been completely vaccinated. In the 18 to 44 age group, 12.63 lakh men and women have been provided each doses.
The quantity of Covishield vaccine doses administered is 24.62 crore though the Covaxin doses quantity 3.38 crore. The quantity of fresh circumstances of Covid-19 in the nation fell to 53,256 on Monday, the lowest in 88 days. The everyday positivity price stood at 3.83% and was much less than 5% for 14 consecutive days.