PM holds COVID meet as TPR over 10% in 35 districts
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday chaired a high-level meeting to review the COVID-19 related situation and the vaccination drive in the country, government sources said.
The meeting comes a day after Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan said India is still going through the second wave of COVID-19 and it is not over yet. He had said 35 districts are still reporting a weekly COVID positivity rate of over 10 per cent while it is between five to 10 per cent in 30 districts.
More than half of India’s adult population has received at least one dose of anti-coronavirus vaccine while 18 per cent have got both the shots, the Union government had said on Thursday as the total number of jabs administered in the country crossed 72 crore.
Indian states vaccinating faster than foreign nations
Indian states have been running the COVID-19 vaccination drive at a faster pace than some of the major foreign nations, said the union government on Friday. According to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Uttar Pradesh has been administering around 11.73 lakh COVID vaccine doses on a daily basis in the month of September, which is far more than the United States that has been administering 8.07 lakh doses.
Gujarat has been vaccinating 4.80 lakh people on a daily basis in the month of September while Mexico has been inoculating 4.56 lakh people against the COVID-19 on a daily basis. In Karnataka, the average daily doses administered in September is 3.82 lakh whereas the same for Russia is 3.68 lakh. Meanwhile, Madhya Pradesh is administering 3.71 lakh COVID vaccine doses daily in the ongoing month. As many as 2.84 lakh doses of COVID vaccine is being administered on a daily basis in France in September.
Haryana counts for 1.52 lakh daily doses daily this month while Canada’s average daily doses stand at 0.85 lakh.