Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, July 17: 18 months after vaccinations started in the nation on January 16, 2021, India’s total COVID-19 vaccination coverage reached 200 crore.
Up to Saturday night, 199.97 crore doses of the Covid vaccine, including 5.48 crore doses of the prophylactic dosage, were given across the nation.
The former milestone of 100 crore doses was reached in 277 days. The biggest number of vaccination shots ever provided in one day was 2.5 crore on September 17 of last year. Over 14,000 sites across the nation are performing immunizations, according to CoWIN.
96% of people in the nation have received the first dose of the covid vaccination, and 87% have received both doses.
According to information from Our World in Data, 62.1% of the world’s population has received their full dose of the vaccine.
The Union Health Ministry began a 75-day immunisation campaign this week to provide free precaution doses of the covid vaccine to persons 18 and older.
Less than 1% of the 77.10 crore target population in the 18-59 age range had received the precautionary or booster dose to date. The time between the second and precautionary injection of the COVID-19 vaccine for all beneficiaries was shortened by the health ministry last week from nine to six months.