New Delhi: Upswing in Covid Vaccination, which touched a new diary of 1.03 crore doses on August 27, mainly assisted by much higher absorption in rural areas.
Indian countryside provides around 3.17 crore doses during the last week (August 21-27), more than double the number of jabs provided in urban areas.
At an average of 45.35 doses of lakh given in the village every day for a week, while the dose of the lakh which averages 21.21 is managed in urban areas per day.
Rural areas also registered a week-to-week growth higher than more than 18% in average daily vaccinations during the week ended August 27, as in the previous week.
In urban areas, daily inoculation jumped around 14% week to week.
Overall, around 4.7 doses of vaccine crore were given for August 21-27, up 17% from 3.9 doses of crore given the previous week.
India has provided a total of more than 63.33 crore doses from Jab Anti-Covid so far.
According to the Ourworldindata.org website, India is now ranked second in terms of providing the highest number of vaccinations, only for the US.
However, data for China is not available on websites that track global vaccination.
Apart from the increasing absorption in the villages, the overall increase in vaccination was also driven by those who began vaccination, especially since July.
While this shows a significant expansion in the scope of immunization programs, the government now also encourages the state to prioritize the second dose administration.
Even because more than 37% of the country’s total population has received at least one dose, part of the population which is fully immunized with two doses is still low at 11%.
Countries such as rising, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh have provided the largest number of covid vaccine doses so far.
While the government aims to cover the adult population in December, it will start vaccination of children so that adequate doses are available for the same thing.
At present, only three vaccines dose of Zydus Cadila Zycov-D are approved for emergency use in children over 12 years.