Coronavirus India Updates: Active Cases Decline; Over 62 Lakh Vaccinated

The total number of people who have received anti-coronavirus vaccine shots till Monday evening has crossed 60 lakh, the Union health ministry said, highlighting that India reached the mark in 24 days, the fastest in the world.

Eleven states and Union Territories -- Bihar, Tripura, Madhya Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Odisha, Mizoram, Uttar Pradesh, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan and Kerala-- have vaccinated more than 65% of the registered healthcare workers, he said.

Delhi, Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, Punjab, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Chandigarh, Tamil Nadu, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, and Puducherry have reported less than 40% coverage of vaccinating healthcare workers.

Ten states accounted for 75.12% of the total beneficiaries vaccinated on Monday, Additional Secretary in the Health Ministry Manohar Agnani said.

Source: PTI

Key figures:

• Total number of confirmed coronavirus cases: 1,08,47,304
• Active cases: 1,43,625
• Cured/discharged/migrated: 1,05,48,521
• Deaths: 1,55,158
• Number of fresh cases in last 24 hours: 9,110
• One-day recoveries: 14,016
• One-day deaths: 78

Meanwhile, more than 62 lakh people have been vaccinated under India’s inoculation drive that began on Jan. 16. India crossed the 60-lakh mark in terms of vaccinations within 24 days. That’s the fastest immunazation rate in the world, according to the Health Ministry’s statement on Monday evening. The U.S. took 26 days to reach this mark, whereas the U.K. achieved it in 46 days, it underlined.

Global Update

Scientists on a World Health Organization-sponsored mission to shed light on the explosive spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in Wuhan will brief journalists on their findings later on Tuesday.

Coronavirus infections continued to slow across the globe and a study found that children and staff at French daycare centers that stayed open during the first national lockdown had low rates of infection.

Over 106 million people have contracted the Covid-19 virus so far with 2.3 million deaths. More than 134 million vaccination shots have been given worldwide.