Tribune News Service
New Delhi, January 31
India is fifth in the world in terms of Covid-19 vaccination coverage with 37.44 lakh health workers vaccinated until today. Inoculation of frontline workers will start tomorrow.
"Globally, India stands at the fifth position in terms of the number of vaccine doses administered within the country. This is despite the fact that many countries had initiated their vaccination campaign before India," the government said. India is running the world's largest Covid vaccine programme and has inoculated 30 lakh health workers in 15 days as against the US and UK which took 18 and 36 days, respectively, to reach the same number.
India is currently behind the US, China, the UK and Israel on Covid inoculation.
As of today 37,44,334 beneficiaries had received the shots. In the past 24 hours, 2,44,307 healthcare workers were vaccinated across 5,275 sessions while total sessions conducted so far are 68,962.
Nearly 63.34 per cent of the total beneficiaries are from eight states ndash; Uttar Pradesh (12.4 pc); Rajasthan (8.8 pc), Karnataka (8.4 pc); MP (8 pc); Maharashtra (7.2 pc); Gujarat (6.6 pc), Bengal (6.5 pc); and Odisha (5.5 pc)
Uttar Pradesh has the highest number of vaccinated beneficiaries (4.63 lakh) followed by Rajasthan and Karnataka.
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