New Delhi: After completing the Covid-19 vaccine milestone by reaching one billionth, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is all set to discuss low vaccine coverage of some district on a virtual meeting with officials of districts.
The meeting will include districts with less than 50 per cent coverage of the first dose and low coverage of the second dose of Covid vaccine, the notification said.
“Prime Minister will interact with District Magistrates of over 40 districts in Jharkhand, Manipur, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, and other States with districts having low vaccination coverage. Chief Ministers of these States will also be present on the occasion,” it said.
About three-quarters of adults in the country of 1.3 billion people have had one shot and 30 percent are fully vaccinated, according to government figures.
At the G20 summit session in Rome on Saturday, the Prime Minister underlined that India has administered one billion doses and is ready to produce over 5 billion Covid vaccine doses by the end of next year to help the world in the fight against the pandemic.
Neighboring China, the only nation to churn out more vaccine doses than India, has fully inoculated some 1.05 billion, or 75 per cent of its citizens, as of late September.
India administered its one billionth vaccine dose last week, months after cases and deaths peaked in the second surge of Covid that ambushed the country’s health infrastructure.
India aims to fully vaccinate its adult population by year-end.
Covid-19 updates
India registered 12,830 fresh Covid-19 cases and 446 related deaths in the past 24 hours, according to the Union ministry of health and family welfare on Sunday.
The active cases of Covid-19 in the country now stand at 159,272, which are the lowest in 247 days. The active cases now account for less than 1% of total Covid-19 cases and are currently at 0.46%—the lowest since March 2020. The daily positivity rate stands at 1.13%, which has been less than 2% for the last 27 days.
Meanwhile, as many as 14,667 people recovered from the viral disease in the past 24 hours, taking the total number of recoveries to 3,36,55,842 across the country. The recovery rate now stands at 98.20 per cent.
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