New Delhi: Ninety-five percent of adult populations that qualify India have been given the first dose of Covid vaccine while 74 percent fully inoculated, the Union health department said on Thursday because the total vaccine dose provided had passed 164.35 crores.
Until 7:00 a.m.
on Thursday, 49.69,805 the vaccine dose was given.
A total of 1,03.04,847 prevention doses have been given to health workers and frontline workers and those aged 60 years and over with comorbidity.
Also 4,42.81,254 teenagers in the age group 15-18 years have been given the first dose of Covid-19 vaccine.
Daily vaccination calculations are expected to increase with the final report compilation for the day at the end of Thursday.
Meanwhile, Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya conjoined the nation for extraordinary achievements.
In a tweet, he said that India had reached a record of the first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine to more than 95 percent of its qualified population.
Under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, hard work of health workers and public participation, the country continues to move forward in this campaign, he said.
Countrywide vaccination drive was launched on January 16 last year with health workers inoculated in the first phase.
India began to provide a dose of prevention of Covid-19 vaccine for health workers, frontline workers including personnel were deployed for electoral assignments and those aged 60 years and over with comorbidity from January 10 in the middle of the country who witnessed the surge in Coronavirus infection which was driven by the virus virus.