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 (10^th 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.