Over 60 lakh healthcare, frontline workers vaccinated: Govt
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India has thus far offered COVID vaccination to over 60 lakh (60,35,660) well being care and frontline workers with no case of great/extreme opposed occasion following immunisation/deaths attributable to vaccination until date, mentioned the Health Ministry on Monday. Over two lakh beneficiaries (2,23,298) have been vaccinated until 6 p.m. on Monday.
It mentioned States like Bihar, Mizoram, Odisha, Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh and Tripura are among the many 11 States the place vaccination protection has been over 65% with Delhi, Chandigarh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Punjab, Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir being among the many areas which has thus far registered under 40% vaccination protection.
“Till date total hospitalisations reported after vaccination has been 29 of which 19 have been discharged, while one continues to be under treatment and nine deaths have been reported. In the past 24 hours a new event of hospitalisation has been reported of a patient with facial palsy. The patient is stable and under care in the Kerala Institute of Medical Sciences, Thiruvananathpuram, Kerala,” mentioned the Health Ministry.
(*60*) Ministry added that thus far a complete of 23 deaths have been reported of which 9 have been within the hospital and 14 outdoors.
“A new death has been reported in the past 24 hours of a 29-year-old female in Andhra Pradesh. Report following the post-mortem is awaited,” the Ministry mentioned. “India has become the fastest country to vaccinate 6 million beneficiaries countrywide. This feat was achieved in just 24 days. U.S. took 26 days to reach this mark whereas the UK achieved this in 46 days,” mentioned the Ministry.
