New Delhi, Feb 9: Over one crore teenagers in 15-18 years age group have been fully vaccinated with both doses of COVID-19 vaccines in India.
According to the CoWIN portal, over 6.12 crore beneficiaries in the age group have been administered the first dose of vaccine.
“What a historic feat by Young India! Over 1 crore youngsters between 15-18 age group are now fully vaccinated against Covid-19,” said Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya in a tweet on Wednesday.
The estimated population of beneficiaries in the age group of 15-18 years is 7.4 crore for 2021-22.
Meanwhile, the Union Health Minister told the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday that about 67 per cent in the age group of 15-18 years have been vaccinated so far.
“The vaccination drive is being implemented in a speedy manner. The future decision will be taken based on the expert group’s suggestion,” Mandaviya informed on Tuesday.
He also said that the current surge of Covid-19 cases in the country is showing a sustained declining trends.
With the administration of more than 53.61 lakh vaccine doses in a span of 24 hours, India’s Covid-19 vaccination coverage has exceeded 170.87 crore, according to provisional reports of Health Ministry on Wednesday morning.
Meanwhile, India logged 71,365 new coronavirus infections taking the country’s total tally of COVID-19 cases to 4,24,10,976, while the active cases declined to 8,92,828, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Wednesday.
The death toll climbed to 5,05,279 with 1,217 fresh fatalities, the data also updated. The active cases comprise 2.11 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate has improved to 96.70 per cent, the ministry said.
A reduction of 1,02,063 cases has been recorded in the active COVID-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours. The daily positivity rate was recorded at 4.54 per cent while the weekly positivity rate was recorded at 7.57 per cent, according to the ministry. The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 4,10,12,869, while the case fatality rate was recorded at 1.19 per cent.
The cumulative doses administered in the country so far under the nationwide COVID-19 vaccination drive has exceeded 170.87 crore. 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 the one-crore mark on December 19. India crossed the grim milestone of two crore on May 4 and three crore on June 23 last year.
The 1,217 new fatalities include 824 from Kerala and 57 from Maharashtra. A total of 5,05,279 deaths have been reported so far in the country including 1,43,155 from Maharashtra, 59,939 from Kerala, 39,447 from Karnataka, 37,809 from Tamil Nadu, 26,010 from Delhi, 23,343 from Uttar Pradesh and 20,884 from West Bengal. (IANS)
