New Delhi: When the year which witnessed the second wave of Covid-19 which was destroyed in the midst of increasing concerns over the Omicron variant of the Coronavirus novel, experts believe that vaccination is still the best bet on disease.
Drive vaccination, which has witnessed the highest and lowest since launched on January 16, has succeeded in covering nearly three quarters from close to 1.5 crore adult Delhies.
At the end of 2021, the district authority successfully completed the coverage of 100% of at least one vaccine dose for all beneficiaries of qualified.
The drive starts with the priority groups of health workers and front lines, followed by those who are 60 years and above and those who have comorbidity.
Those aged between 45 and 60 years became eligible from April 1, followed by them in the 18-44 year bracket from May.
The young men have been behind the wheel drive in Delhi, even though there is a disturbance in their vaccination schedule more than once in May and June to give priority to those who qualify for the second dose amid a lack of vaccines.
In addition to vaccine doubts, the availability of doses also dictates the increase and dip in the drive.
While it reached a high dose of nearly 11 lakh in a week between June 26 and July 2 before DIP, the highest of all time 11.6 Lakh vaccination was recorded between 18 and September 24.
More than 2 lakh people were vaccinated in a day on September 25 and 27, but the daily number dipped again and remained under 1 dose of lakh for most of November.
Drive, however, gained speed at the end of November and the average in December remained more than 1 lakh a day.
The latest government serological survey conducted in September 2021 showed that 97% of Delhi’s population had antibodies against Covid-19, which were significantly higher than 22.8% seroprevalence seen in the first survey in June 2020.
Among those who have received one The dosage vaccine during the sixth survey, almost 95% was sero-positive, compared with 82% of the two minors and adult populations were not vaccinated.
The second sero survey in August 2020 revealed 29.1% seroprevalence, which slumped to 25.1% in September.
At 25.5%, it showed a marginal increase in October 2020, but more than doubled to 56.1% during the fifth survey in January 2021.
The total number of vaccine doses provided in Delhi approached 2.6 crores, the highest among all Metro City, India.
But Mumbai has fully vaccinated more than 80% of the population which qualified as almost 73% in the capital.