Vaccine mantra
The covid numbers during the past few days have been encouraging in the sense that the country is witnessing a steady decline in terms of active cases and even the number of daily infections.
On Wednesday the country recorded a single-day rise of 11,903 new infections, while the number of active cases declined to 1,51,209, the lowest in 252 days. The daily rise in new coronavirus infections has been below 20,000 for 26 straight days and less than 50,000 daily new cases have been reported for 129 consecutive days now.
The number of active cases has declined to 1,51,209, comprising 0.44 per cent of the total infections, the lowest since March 2020, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate was recorded at 98.22 per cent, the highest since March 2020.
Moreover, the daily positivity rate was recorded at 1.11 per cent. It has been less than 2 per cent for the last 30 days. The weekly positivity rate was also recorded at 1.18 per cent. It has been below 2 per cent for the last 40 days.
India’s COVID-19 tally had crossed the 20-lakh mark on August 7, 2020; 30 lakh on August 23; 40 lakh on September 5 and 50 lakh on September 16. It went past 60 lakh on September 28; 70 lakh on October 11, crossed 80 lakh on October 29; 90 lakh on November 20 and surpassed one crore on December 19.
India crossed the grim milestone of two crore COVID-19 cases on May 4 and three crore on June 23.
Notably, the covid numbers have witnessed a decline owing to the rapid and comprehensive vaccine coverage provided to every nook and corner of the country. Given the success of the vaccination drive Prime Minister Narendra Modi asserted that the COVID-19 vaccination drive needed to be taken door-to-door and asked officials of districts having low inoculation to adopt innovative ways to boost the campaign.
Initially, the door to door campaign will be started in 40 districts having low vaccination coverage.
The districts in focus will be those with less than 50 per cent coverage of the first dose and low coverage of the second dose of vaccine. The 40 districts are spread across Jharkhand, Manipur, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh, Maharashtra and Meghalaya, among other states.
The unique way to cover the low coverage areas through door to door campaigning is a novel idea as the vaccination has proved to be the biggest protection and weapon against the covid-19 pandemic.
We have over the past few weeks witnessed that how new variants of the covid-19 have affected countries like Russia, China and even the United Kingdom to some extent.
Therefore, making it mandatory for the entire population to get vaccinated has proven a right decision. Even the vaccine should be provided to the young kids as well as all such approvals have already been granted for using the vaccine in kids aged above two years.
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