BHUBANESWAR: The state on Tuesday administered another 2.92 lakh doses of Covid vaccine, raising the total jabs administered so far to 1.04 crore.
With this, more than 85.58 lakh people have got at least one dose of the vaccine, which is around 28% of the state’s total targeted population of 3.09 crore.
But only around 18.65 lakh or 6% of the target population have got both the doses.
Assuming that the state inoculates three lakh people per day — the target set by it — it needs 75 days without break (mid-September) to administer one dose to the remaining 2.24 crore people above 18 years.
The second dose for all would take 159 days or more than five months if vaccinated at the same pace.
A possible third wave of the pandemic is predicted to peak in September-October.
Additional chief secretary (health) Pradipta Kumar Mohapatra said the state can increase the daily coverage substantially beyond four lakh per day depending on availability of vaccine.
“We will scale up daily coverage further,” Mohapatra said.
The state has set a target for each district, with a total of three lakh doses per day from Monday.
As on Tuesday evening, the state has a stock of 6.31 lakh doses of Covishield and 4.08 lakh doses of Covaxin.
As many as 2,957 people from among 61,608 samples tested were found positive for Covid-19 on Tuesday, registering a test positivity rate (TPR) of 4.8%.
Besides, none of the districts had positivity above 10%.
The daily average TPR remains below 5% for the second day in a row.
The WHO recommends TPR below 5% for at least two weeks before the outbreak can be considered to be under control.
The government confirmed 38 more deaths due to Covid, raising the virus toll to 3,671.
The new deaths include six from Khurda besides five each from Bargarh and Cuttack, four each from Mayurbhanj and Puri, Sambalpur (3), Jagatsinghpur and Jharsuguda (two each), Angul, Deogarh, Dhenkanal, Ganjam and Sundargarh (one each).
Another 4,159 recovered from infections, reducing the total active caseload to 30,806, less than one-third of active cases of more than one lakh exactly a month ago.