India had given 32.36 crore doses of COVID-19 vaccine doses and the Us had given 32.33 crore doses, India saw a new record in the total number of doses administered as it had surpassed United States for the same.
In the last 24 hours, India had registered over 46,148 new cases pf COVID-19 and 979 deaths, taking the total cases up to 3,02,79,331 and the total number of deaths up to 3.96 lakh. This drop in daily number of cases came after a tough battle against the second wave.
5.6 per cent of adults in India have been vaccinated so far with both the doses, however over 40 per cent of the United States population had received both the doses of the vaccine.
Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India, tweeted earlier today that the India’s vaccination drive keeps gaining momentum and he congratulated to all those who were driving this effort. He added that their commitment remained vaccines for all and free for all.
In the previous one week, India had administered over 3 crore, 91 lakh vaccine doses. The Health Ministry in a tweet said that the milestone vaccination figure outnumbered the population of many countries like Canada, Malaysia and Saudi Arabia.
On Saturday, the centre told the court that it expects to get over 188 crore doses of vaccines by thr end of this year to vaccinate all the adults. In an affidavit, the Centre told the court that 51.6 crore doses would be made available for administration by July 31, leaving the requirements of approximately 135 crore vaccine doses.
The active cases are 1.89 per cent of the total cases. The Government has said that thr daily recoveries continued to outnumber the daily new cases for the 46th consecutive day. The daily positivity rate stood at 2.94 per cent earlier this morning and had been less than 5 per cent for 21 consecutive days.
The Government had said that the Delta Plus variant which was believed to be more infectious is in 12 countries as of now. The centre has said that the virus was very localised in the country now, and was isolated and cultured at ICMR-NIV.
On Sunday while PM Narendra Modi was addressing the radio programme “Mann ki Baat”, he urged people to shed the vaccine hesitancy and said that his mother is almost 100 years old and she had taken both the vaccines as well, and he asked people to not believe any rumours related to vaccines.
Another challenge faced by the vaccination drive in India was the gender gap. Only 46 per cent of the women had received the jab while 54 per cent of men had received the dosage, which was a gap of 8 per cent. Dr. VK Paul, the Chairperson of National Expert Group said that the gender imbalance needs to be corrected in the upcoming days.
On Sunday, Delhi recorded less than 100 new cases for the third consecutive day, the national capital was gradually unlocking.
