Haryana’s Nuh among 48 districts with lowest first Covid dose coverage

Aditi Tandon

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, October 28

Nuh in Haryana is among the 48 lowest performing districts on Covid 19 vaccine coverage nationally.

Government data collated for the conference of state health ministers held here on Wednesday to discuss the gaps in the national inoculation drive reveals that 28 of the 48 districts reporting less than 50 pc coverage of the first dose are in the northeastern states of Arunachal Pradesh (six districts); Assam (one), Manipur (eight districts), Meghalaya (four districts), Mizoram (one), Nagaland (eight districts).

Kangpokpi district in Arunachal Pradesh has the lowest percentage of eligible adults covered with the first dose – 17.1 pc. The national average for first dose coverage if 76 pc.

Haryana’s Nuh has covered only 23.5 pc of the eligible adults with the first Covid dose since January 16 when the inoculation drive began.

Delhi’s northwest district (48.2 pc covered with first dose); Bihar’s Araria (49.6 pc) and Tamil Nadu’s Tiruvallur (43.1 pc coverage) are also among the lowest performers on first doses.