India’s Cumulative Vaccination Coverage nears 12 Crores

The cumulative number of COVID19 vaccine doses administered in the country has nearly reached 12 Cr today as part of the world’s largest vaccination drive.

Cumulatively, 11,99,37,641 vaccine doses have been administered through 17,37,539 sessions, as per the provisional report till 7 am today. These include 91,05,429 HCWs who have taken the 1st dose and 56,70,818 HCWs who have taken the 2nd dose, 1,11,44,069 FLWs (1^stdose), 54,08,572 FLWs (2^nddose), 4,49,35,011 1^st dose beneficiaries and 34,88,257 2^nd dose beneficiaries more than 60 years old and 3,92,23,975 (1^st dose) and 9,61,510 (2^nd dose) beneficiaries aged 45 to 60 years.

Eight states account for 59.56% of the total doses given so far in the country.

Over 30 lakh vaccination doses were administered in the last 24 hours.

As on Day-91 of the vaccination drive (16^th April, 2021), 30,04,544 vaccine doses were given. 22,96,008 beneficiaries were vaccinated across 37,817 sessions for 1^st dose and 7,08,536 beneficiaries received 2^nd dose of vaccine.