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While the number of beneficiaries who have received the vaccination against novel coronavirus inch closer to 16 lakh, the Union Health Ministry Sunday said that India took only six days to administer one million COVID-19 inoculation doses. It also pointed out that this count is higher than that of countries like the United States and the United Kingdom.
Britain took 18 days whereas Washington took ten to reach the one million mark, the ministry said.
As on January 24, till 8 am, nearly 16 lakh (15,82,201) beneficiaries have received COVID-19 vaccination.
In the last 24 hours, administration vaccinated close to 2 lakh (1,91,609) people across 3,512 sessions. The country has conducted a total of 27,920 sessions so far, the ministry said.
“In a testament to the successful test-track-treat-technology strategy, India continues on its steady trajectory of reporting a sustained downfall in the daily new cases and consequential decline in the active cases”, the ministry underlined.
India’s active cases today stand at 1,84,408 which comprises of 1.73 per cent of the total cases. The overall case tally stands at 1,06,54,533 and 1,53,339 deaths. The ministry reported 14,849 new coronavirus cases and 155 deaths in the last 24 hours.
Lieutenant General CP Mohanty, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief Southern Command of the Indian Army on Saturday said around 6,000 healthcare workers in the command had been vaccinated against Covid-19 so far.
Briefing the media, Mohanty said, “We have prioritised our vaccination drives. Our healthcare workers in military hospitals are providing sustained support. We have started administering the vaccine to our health workers. Around 6,000 of them have been vaccinated so far.”
Meanwhile, the civil aviation ministry has told the Union health ministry that frontline workers in the aviation sector should be considered for COVID-19 vaccination on priority basis after health workers have been given the jabs.
On December 28 last year, the health ministry had issued vaccination guidelines, according to which India will initially inoculate around 30 crore Indians, including around three crore healthcare and frontline workers, and approximately 27 crore people of over the age of 50 years.
However, the list of the frontline workers excludes aviation sector employees but includes personnel from the armed forces, prison staff, municipal workers, among others.
In a letter dated January 20, Secretary, Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA), Pradeep Singh Kharola told his counterpart in the health ministry Rajesh Bhushan: “You will agree with me that the crew, engineers, technicians, ground staff, frontline workers in aviation have certain risk elements while performing their duties in a most diligent manner and make air transportation a safe mode of transport.”
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