One-third of 45-plus citizens given 1st shot

New Delhi, May 6

One-third of the population aged 45 years and above has received at least one Covid vaccine dose, top Health Ministry officials informed PM Narendra Modi at a review meeting held on Thursday as daily Covid cases hit a record 4,12,262 and daily deaths topped 3,980.

At the meeting, attended among others by ministers Rajnath Singh, Amit Shah, Nirmala Sitharaman and Harsh Vardhan, the PM reiterated the need for high-burden states to impose local lockdown. The PM was briefed that 31 per cent of eligible population over the age of 45 had been given at least one dose. The meeting reviewed 24 states with higher than 15 per cent positivity rate — Haryana, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and Delhi among them. — TNS