Year on, 70 per cent Indian adults fully vaccinated against Covid-19

A beneficiary receives a vaccine dose, in Gurugram on Sunday. Pic/ANI

Seventy per cent of India's adults have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 while 93 per cent received the first jab, said Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya while launching a postage stamp on indigenously developed vaccine Covaxin to mark one year of the inoculation drive.

"India has been able to achieve the milestone of administering over 156 crore doses despite such a huge population and diversity," he said. Prime Minister Narendra Modi also praised the health workers for the achievement.

As many as 25 crore vaccine doses were administered on June 25, crossed 50 crore vaccine dose on August 6 and 75 crore on September 13, he said. The drive was rolled out on January 16 last year with healthcare workers getting inoculated in the first phase. Vaccination of frontline workers started from February 2.

The next phase of the vaccination commenced from March 1 for people over 60 years of age and those aged 45 and above with specified co-morbid conditions. Vaccination of all people aged over 45 from April 1.

3,71,22,164 Total no. of Coronavirus cases in india so far
4,86,066 Total no. of deaths due to the virus in India so far
15,50,377 Total no. of active cases in India

‘1.47L kids lost parents to virus'

The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has informed the Supreme Court that a total of 1,47,492 children since April 1, 2020, have lost either their mother or father or both parents due to COVID-19 and other reasons.

Giving the details in a suo motu matter, the NCPCR said, "That it is most humbly reiterated that the data of children uploaded on the ‘Baal Swaraj Portal-COVID care' by the States/UTs comprises of both categories of children, wherein the child has lost both or either of the parent to COVID-19 disease or otherwise from April 2020 onwards."

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