Coronavirus | India vaccinates close to 80 lakh healthcare and frontline workers
It includes 59 lakh health care workers, says Health Ministry.
Uptake of COVID vaccination is higher among frontline workers with India on Saturday providing COVID-vaccination to close to 80 lakh beneficiaries (79,67,647) (till 8 a.m.) and of these, 59,09,136 are health care workers and 20,58,511 are front line workers. So far 1,64,781 sessions have been conducted.
The country has reported 103 deaths in the last 24 hours with six States accounting for 80.58% of the new deaths. Maharashtra registered the maximum number of casualties (36). Kerala came next with 18 daily deaths, while Karnataka and Punjab reported eights deaths each, as per information released by the Health Ministry.
It added that in the last 24 hours, 17 States/UTs including Telangana, Odisha, Jharkhand, Puducherry, Chandigarh, Nagaland, Assam, Manipur, Sikkim, Meghalaya, Ladakh and Mizoram have not reported any new deaths.
India’s total active caseload currently stands at 1.36 lakh and a total of 1.06 crore (1,06,00,625) people have recovered so far. In the last 24 hours, 11,395 patients have recovered and got discharged.
