90% health workers get 1st dose in 9 states/UTs

Even as vaccination against Covid-19 started slowly in the first phase – initially marred by hesitancy – nine states have now given the first shot to over 90% of registered healthcare workers.

Sushmi Dey
  • Updated On Mar 3, 2021 at 05:57 AM IST
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New Delhi: Even as vaccination against Covid-19 started slowly in the first phase – initially marred by hesitancy – nine states have now given the first shot to over 90% of registered healthcare workers.

States such as Jharkhand, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Gujarat and the UT of Ladakh have achieved 100% coverage of healthcare workers for the first dose, the government said, adding that even states like Tamil Nadu, where vaccine hesitancy was initially a major issue, are now among better performers.

Nine states and UTs have also vaccinated over 75% of its healthcare workers who were due for second dose.

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Over 70% of frontline workers get first dose of vax in 9 states, UTs
These states include including Odisha, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh and Chhattisgarh.
Besides, nine states and UTs have achieved more than 70% vaccination coverage of registered front-line workers with the first dose of the vaccines.Overall, India administered over 1.54 crore doses of the Covid vaccines till 7pm on Tuesday since January 16. These included over 67.32 lakh health and over 55.47 lakh frontline workers who received the first dose and over 26.85 lakh health and 828 frontline workers who have got the second shot. Since the launch of the second phase of the drive on March 1, which the coverage expanded to a larger “priority” population group, over 4.34 lakh people more than 60 and 60,020 people aged 45-60 with specific co-morbidities have also received the vaccine till 7pm on Tuesday.

The health ministry said 5 crore doses and 46 lakh vials of vaccine had so far been moved around the country.


  • Published On Mar 3, 2021 at 05:50 AM IST
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