India on Thursday registered 12,923 new coronavirus cases , taking the overall count to 1,08,71,294. The toll rose to 1,55,360, after 108 n...
India on Thursday registered 12,923 new coronavirus cases, taking the overall count to 1,08,71,294. The toll rose to 1,55,360, after 108 new deaths were reported in 24 hours.
More than 1.05 crore people in India have recovered from the infection, taking the recovery rate to 97.26%. The number of active cases went up to 1,42,562.
Meanwhile, as many as 70,17,114 health and frontline workers have been vaccinated against the coronavirus so far. Of these, 4,05,349 were inoculated on Wednesday.
Thirteen states and Union Territories have vaccinated more than 65% of the registered beneficiaries, the health ministry said. These are, Bihar, Tripura, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Lakshadweep, Kerala, Mizoram, Chhattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh, Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Rajasthan.
On the other hand, seven states and Union Territories have reported less than 40% coverage of registered healthcare workers. These are Punjab, Meghalaya, Chandigarh, Tamil Nadu, Manipur, Nagaland and Puducherry.
Ten states that have recorded highest number of vaccinations are Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, West Bengal, Odisha, Tamil Nadu and Bihar.
Additionally, India’s death rate among those who received the Covid-19 vaccine is one of the lowest in the world, according to the Hindustan Times. With 23 deaths reported in persons post immunisation till Wednesday, the percentage of deaths of the total vaccinations is...
