Overcoming the pandemic
The good news about vaccination in India is that 66 per cent of the country’s adult population has been administered at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine, while 23 per cent has received both the doses.
The cumulative number of COVID-19 vaccine doses administered in the country has crossed 84 crore, data sourced from Co-WIN portal has mentioned. This is a real achievement given the way people had resorted to vaccine hesitancy and the shortfall the healthcare infrastructure had to face when the vaccines were being manufactured.
As of now two-third of India’s adult population (66 per cent) has been vaccinated against SARS-CoV 2 and almost a quarter of the adult population has received two doses, and in both these parameters there are states and UTs which have done much better than these averages.
Right now the vaccines are the only protection against the virus as they are providing protection against serious diseases and against mortality in a big way and given this fact it is a matter of satisfaction that the coverage is now phenomenally significant.
Interestingly, 100 per cent of the frontline workers have been administered the first dose, while 80 percent of them have been given the second dose.
According to the data, the average daily doses administered in a month has increased from 19.69 lakh in May to 39.89 lakh in June, then further to 43.41 lakh in July and to 59.19 lakh in August.
The average daily vaccination in September so far has been 81.60 lakh per day, as nearly 18 crore doses have been administered in 22 days of September.
The vaccine doses given to such huge population has meant that India has so far evaded any possible dent from the third wave which was otherwise predicted not only here but elsewhere.
The strict adherence to vaccination has meant that India witnessed the lowest active covid-19 cases during the past 188 days. On Friday India logged 31,382 new coronavirus infections as the active cases declined to 3,00,162, the lowest in 188 days.
The active cases comprise 0.89 per cent of the total infections, the lowest since March 2020, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate was recorded at 97.78 per cent, the highest since March 2020.
A reduction of 1,478 cases has been recorded in the active COVID-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours. As many as 15,65,696 tests were conducted on Thursday taking the total cumulative tests conducted so far for detection of COVID-19 in the country to 55,99,32,709.
The daily positivity rate was recorded at two per cent. It has been less than three per cent for last 25 days. The weekly positivity rate was recorded at 2.07 per cent. It has been below three per cent for the last 91 days.
However, one needs to stick to caution as those who are eligible but not taken their vaccine – men and women, pregnant women and everybody more so those who are of higher age in particular above 50 years should get their first and second dose so that they can get complete protection and the country overcomes the pandemic.
