Nearly 98.5 lakh doses given to health, frontline workers

Coverage below 50% in Punjab, Chd

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*Seven states and UTs have reported less than 50 per cent coverage of the registered healthcare workers for the first dose

*These are Ladakh, Tamil Nadu, Delhi, Punjab, Chandigarh, Nagaland and Puducherry

New Delhi, February 18

The cumulative number of Covid-19 vaccine doses administered to healthcare and frontline workers in the country has reached nearly 98.5 lakh, the Union Health Ministry said on Thursday.

A total 98,46,523 vaccine doses were given through 2,10,809 sessions. This includes 62,34,635 healthcare workers (HCWs) who have taken the first dose and 4,64,932 HCWs who have taken the second dose, along with 31,46,956 frontline workers (FLWs) who were administered the first dose.

While the countrywide vaccination drive was rolled out on January 16, vaccination of the frontline workers started from February 2. In all, 3,17,190 vaccine doses were given till Thursday, the 34th day of the nationwide vaccination drive, the ministry said.

A total of 11 states and UTs have vaccinated over 75 per cent of the registered healthcare workers for the first dose. These are Bihar, Tripura, Odisha, Lakshadweep, Gujarat, Chhattisgarh, Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh.

Seven states and UTs have reported less than 50 per cent coverage of the registered healthcare workers for the first dose. These are Ladakh, Tamil Nadu, Delhi, Punjab, Chandigarh, Nagaland and Puducherry. A total of 15 states have registered more than 40 per cent coverage for the first dose among frontline workers. These are Gujarat, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Tripura, Uttarakhand, Jharkhand, Lakshadweep, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Chhattisgarh, Jammu and Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.

The 10 states that recorded the highest number of vaccinations are Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Bihar, Jammu and Kashmir, Odisha, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal and Chhattisgarh.

Forty persons have been hospitalised so far, comprising 0.0004 per cent of those vaccinated. Of the 40 cases, 24 were discharged after treatment while 13 persons died and three are under treatment, the ministry said.

In the last 24 hours, two persons have been hospitalised in West Bengal. One of them had convulsions and the other suffered from anaphylaxis. Both are stable now.

32 deaths have been recorded till date. Of the 32, a total of 13 persons died in hospital while 19 deaths were recorded outside hospital.

“No case of serious/severe AEFI/death is attributable to vaccination till now,” the ministry stated. PTI