States like Maharashtra and Delhi have requested the Centre to remove the age limit for immunisation. 3 hours ago A file photo of a woman receiving a dose of the coronavirus vaccine in Ahmedabad. | Reuters/Amit Dave
India is currently in its third phase of Covid-19 vaccination where those above 45 years are eligible to get the shots. Public and private hospitals have administered over eight crore doses with most of them accounting for the first dose.
But this phase has coincided with the second wave of Covid-19 infections.
Three months after it rolled out vaccines, the country hit a grim milestone on Monday when it recorded over a lakh fresh cases with cases surging in states like Maharashtra, Punjab, Chhattisgarh and Karnataka among others.
Not far from Delhi, India s most backward district lags in Covid-19 vaccination too
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India s Most Backward District Lags In COVID Vaccinations Too
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India on Saturday recorded over 89,000 new Covid-19 cases with the epidemic’s second wave poised to breach the earlier peak of 97,894 cases and at least five states reporting more cases than they had last year.
Amid the sharp rise in daily counts, the country’s Covid-19 vaccination campaign has moved slower than expected with a conspicuous low participation from private hospitals and about 10 million people immunised from the target of around 350 million.
In Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, and Punjab, the counts of daily new cases have exceeded the peaks last year. Maharashtra, for instance, on Saturday recorded over 47,000 new cases compared with its peak count of about 25,000 last September. Gujarat reported 2,600 cases, nearly 1,000 higher than its previous peak count.