India on Wednesday recorded 11,610 new coronavirus cases, taking its tally to 1,09,37,320, the health ministry data showed. Deaths rose by...
India on Wednesday recorded 11,610 new coronavirus cases, taking its tally to 1,09,37,320, the health ministry data showed. Deaths rose by 100 to 1,55,913.
As many as 1,06,44,858 people have recovered from the infection, pushing the recovery rate to 97.33%. The active caseload went down to 1,36,549, which is 1.25% of the total positive cases.
A total of 89,99,230 healthcare and other frontline workers have been vaccinated so far. Of these, 2,76,943 received their inoculation on Tuesday.
The health ministry said that only one out of 2,000 beneficiaries have reported minor effects post vaccination, noting that the rate of adverse event following immunisation was recorded at 0.05%, PTI reported.
Health ministry official Vinod Kumar Paul, who heads a government panel on vaccine strategy, said that India will increase the number of vaccination sites by up to five times after administering nearly 90 lakh shots in a month, reported Reuters.
The ongoing vaccination of frontline workers has taught India how to scale up the campaign, Paul told a news conference. “This learning will be of great use,” he added. “We are currently running 10,000-11,000 immunisation sessions. We will do four to five times of that when we start the next phase; wait for the pace to pick up.”
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