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Reasons behind Maharashtraâs disastrous Covid showing dragging the India story down
Reasons behind Maharashtraâs disastrous Covid showing dragging the India story down
Maharashtra has 56% of Indiaâs active Covid cases, but just 9.3% vaccinations and 7.6% tests. Experts say need of the hour is to prioritise high-burden districts for vaccinations.
Abantika Ghosh 15 March, 2021 8:46 am IST Text Size:
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New Delhi: Maharashtra has rarely fallen off the list of Indian states worst hit by Covid-19 since April 2020, and now, another recent surge is causing grave worry.
The state accounts for 56 per cent of all active cases in India currently, with eight of the top 10 districts in the country. In the last one month, in fact, Maharashtra has shown an explosive spurt in active cases from 36,917 on 11 February to 1,00,240 on 11 March.
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India s COVID-19 vaccination drive has become the second-largest inoculation programme in the world. This is both in terms of total jabs administered and the number of doses being administered daily. Now, India is only behind the US which is administering 2.5 million doses daily
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India s daily dose count has tripled in the last 20 days
The average number of COVID-19 vaccine doses administered daily was 1.26 million last week. With such figures, India s COVID-19 vaccination drive has become the second-largest inoculation programme in the world. This is both in terms of total jabs administered and the number of doses being administered daily. Now, India is only behind the United States which is administering 2.5 million COVID-19 doses daily. India s recent gains have indicated that the vaccination drive has been picking up pace in the last few weeks.
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