India fastest in the world in COVID-19 vaccinations

Team News Riveting

New Delhi, February 11

With yet another significant achievement in its fight against the pandemic, India has become the fastest country in the world to achieve over 70 lakh vaccinations against Covid-19.

India accomplished this feat in only 26 days, while it took 27 days for the US and 48 days for the UK to reach the same figures. India has also been the fastest to touch the 6 million mark a few days back.

As on February 11, 2021, till 8 AM, more than 70 lakh (70,17,114) beneficiaries have received the vaccination under the countrywide COVID19 vaccination exercise.

The total cumulative vaccination coverage of 70,17,114 includes 57,05,228 healthcare workers (HCWs) and 13,11,886 frontline workers (FLWs). 1,43,056 sessions have been conducted so far.

4,05,349 beneficiaries (HCWs- 94,890 and FLWs- 3,10,459) were vaccinated on Day-26 (10th Feb 2021) across 8,308 sessions.

The number of beneficiaries being vaccinated every day has shown a progressive increase.

13 States/UTs that included Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar and Odisha have vaccinated over 65 per cent of the registered healthcare workers (HCWs). Bihar leads with over 79 per cent of the registered HCWs vaccinated.

7 States/UTs have reported less than 40 per cent vaccinations of the registered healthcare workers (HCWs). Puducherry has recorded the lowest vaccination performance of 17.5 per cent.

S. No.State/UTBeneficiaries vaccinated
1A & N Islands3,413
2Andhra Pradesh3,35,268
3Arunachal Pradesh13,480
4Assam1,10,977
5Bihar4,30,307
6Chandigarh6,903
7Chhattisgarh2,16,784
8Dadra & Nagar Haveli2,326
9Daman & Diu1,030
10Delhi1,46,789
11Goa9,961
12Gujarat6,14,530
13Haryana1,83,529
14Himachal Pradesh66,101
15Jammu & Kashmir74,219
16Jharkhand1,60,492
17Karnataka4,64,485
18Kerala3,26,246
19Ladakh2,536
20Lakshadweep920
21Madhya Pradesh4,31,702
22Maharashtra5,73,681
23Manipur13,747
24Meghalaya9,760
25Mizoram11,046
26Nagaland7,167
27Odisha3,61,623
28Puducherry4,770
29Punjab91,669
30Rajasthan5,59,990
31Sikkim7,808
32Tamil Nadu1,97,392
33Telangana2,58,122
34Tripura52,908
35Uttar Pradesh6,73,542
36Uttarakhand90,483
37West Bengal4,27,042
38Miscellaneous74,366
Total 70,17,114

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