Bhubaneswar: March 16: In a significant development, the total vaccination coverage in India has crossed the 3.29 crore.
Yesterday, India also recorded the highest vaccinations in a day with over 3 million vaccine doses administered.
The coverage of beneficiaries aged over 60 years has crossed 1 crore in just 15 days.
3,29,47,432 vaccine doses have been administered through 5,55,984 sessions, as per the provisional report till 7 am today. These include 74,46,983 HCWs (1st dose), 44,58,616 HCWs (2nd dose), 74,74,406 FLWs (1st dose) and 14,09,332 FLWs (2nd Dose), 18,88,727 beneficiaries aged more than 45 years with specific co-morbidities (1st Dose) and 1,02,69,368 beneficiaries aged more than 60 years.
As on Day-59 of the vaccination drive (15th March, 2021), total 30,39,394 vaccine doses were given. Out of which, 26,27,099 beneficiaries were vaccinated across 42,919 sessions for 1st dose (HCWs and FLWs) and 4,12,295 HCWs and FLWs received 2nd dose of vaccine. (Inputs from PIB)