Inoculations on Tuesday crossed the 50-lakh mark with 51.34 lakh doses obtaining been administered till late evening. With this, the tally of total doses administered in the nation in the new phase, which started on Monday, rose to 1.39 crore. On Monday, India saw 88.09 lakh doses getting administered.
VK Paul, member, well being, Niti Aayog, mentioned the numbers had been beyond expectations and demonstrated the capacity out there to carry out vaccinations on this scale. This was probable since of the country’s national immunisation programme systems and the expertise of administering polio doses, Paul mentioned at a Covid-19 briefing of the ministry of well being and family welfare on Tuesday.
Of the 88.09 lakh doses administered on Monday, practically 63.98% or 56.09 doses had been administered in rural places with the remaining 36.32% in urban India. Ten states accounted for majority of the vaccinations carried out on Monday, with Madhya Pradesh topping the list with 17.14 lakh doses administered followed by Karnataka (11.37 lakh), Uttar Pradesh (7.46 lakh), Bihar (5.75 lakh), Haryana (5.15 lakh) and Gujarat (5.15 lakh). Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra and Assam had been the other states in the best ten.
Around 92% of the doses had been administered at government hospitals and vaccination centres. Paul expects private hospitals to play a larger function as vaccine supplies increase. He acknowledged a gender imbalance with males accounting for 53% of the vaccinations and mentioned the government would would work to right the imbalance.
Union well being secretary Rajesh Bhushan mentioned the record numbers had been the outcome of coordination, organizing and collaboration in between the Centre and the states. A 15-day visibility period of the quantum of vaccine doses and the dates on which these would be supplied had helped states program and get districts prepared to administer the doses, he mentioned.