Centre to despatch over 36 lakh doses of COVID-19 vaccine to States in 3 days
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This might be in addition to over 94 lakh already out there with States: Health Ministry
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Over 36 lakh (36,37,030) COVID-19 vaccine doses might be launched to States/UTs throughout the subsequent three days, which might be in addition to 94.47 lakh COVID doses (94,47,614) presently out there with the States/Union Territories, in accordance to an announcement launched by the Health Ministry on Wednesday.(*36*)
It mentioned that the Centre has to this point offered practically 17.02 crore vaccine doses (17,02,42,410) to States/UTs free of price and, of this, the whole consumption together with wastage is 16,07,94,796 doses (as per information out there at 8 a.m. on May 5).(*36*)
“Implementation of accelerated Phase-3 strategy of Covid-19 vaccination started from 1st May 2021. Registration for the new eligible population groups has commenced since 28th April. Potential beneficiaries can either register directly on the CoWIN portal (cowin.gov.in) or through the Aarogya Setu app,” mentioned the Ministry.(*36*)
It added that the cumulative quantity of COVID-19 vaccine doses administered in the nation has crossed 16 crore on Wednesday.(*36*)
“India took only 109 days to achieve this milestone. In comparison, the U.S. took 111 days, while China required 116 days to achieve similar figures. Cumulatively, 16,04,94,188 vaccine doses have been administered through 23,66,349 sessions, as per the provisional report till 7 a.m. on Wednesday. These include 94,62,505 Health Care Workers (HCWs) who have taken the 1st dose and 63,22,055 HCWs who have taken the 2nd dose, 1,35,65,728 Frontline Workers (FLWs) (1st dose), 73,32,999 FLWs (2nd dose), 6,71,285 beneficiaries under 18-45 age group 5,29,50,584 (1st dose beneficiaries) and 1,23,85,466 2nd dose beneficiaries more than 60 years old and 5,33,94,353 (1st dose) and 44,09,213 (2nd dose) beneficiaries aged 45 to 60 years,” mentioned the assertion.(*36*)
More than 14 lakh vaccination doses have been administered in the final 24 hours, it added.(*36*)
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