Even after a slow start, India’s vaccination numbers are gradually picking up. 15.37 lakh people have been vaccinated in 27,776 sessions since January 16, when the mass immunization campaign was launched.
According to the Health Ministry, 1.46 lakh people were vaccinated on Saturday in 3,368 sessions.
The government said, a total of 1,238 adverse events have been recorded so far which is 0.08% of the total vaccinations, including that 11 persons or 0.0007% of the people who were vaccinated have been hospitalised.
On Saturday the Union Health Ministry said that six healthcare workers, who were vaccinated, have died so far although none of these deaths were related to the Covid-19 vaccinations.
India’s vaccination numbers have gradually picked up with nearly 3.5 lakh healthcare workers getting vaccinated on day 7 even after a slow start in the first week (just 1.9 lakh healthcare workers got vaccinated on Day 1).
The increase in numbers is also because of modifications made in the CoWIN database to allow walk-in vaccinations that are those health workers who are not scheduled for a certain date can also come and get vaccinated.
On Saturday, hospitals across Delhi reported remarkable numbers of vaccination. The national capital vaccinated 6,111 of its intended beneficiaries or 75% of state’s daily target of 8,100 beneficiaries at 81 vaccination sites on the day. In four big hospitals of Delhi government there was 100 per cent vaccination. 100 beneficiaries were vaccinated at each of these sites- LNJP, Rajiv Gandhi Super Speciality Hospital, GTB Hospital and Delhi State Cancer Institute.
📍#COVID19 Vaccination Tracker (upto 23rd January, 2021 till 06:00 PM)
✅All-India beneficiaries vaccinated: 1,46,598#We4Vaccine #LargestVaccinationDrive pic.twitter.com/1PYWcQRqjr
— #IndiaFightsCorona (@COVIDNewsByMIB) January 24, 2021
Commercial export of Covid vaccines has been started in India on Saturday. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for providing two million doses of COVID-19 vaccines and said his country felt honoured to have a great partner to overcome a global obstacle by joining efforts.
He also shared a picture of Lord Hanuman lifting the Govardhan mountain to deliver ”Sanjeevni booti” .Brazil is the second worst affected country by coronavirus after the United States .Prime Minister Narendra Modi replied by saying that India will continue to strengthen the cooperation on healthcare.
Apart from Brazil, Covid vaccines are also being sent to Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Morocco, Bangladesh and Myanmar.
On Saturday, the World Health Organisation also thanked India. “Thank you #India and Prime Minister @narendramodi for your continued support to the global #COVID19 response. Only if we #ACTogether, including sharing of knowledge, can we stop this virus and save lives and livelihoods,” WHO director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus tweeted.
Thank you #India and Prime Minister @narendramodi for your continued support to the global #COVID19 response. Only if we #ACTogether, including sharing of knowledge, can we stop this virus and save lives and livelihoods.
— Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (@DrTedros) January 23, 2021
India had earlier sent vaccines to seven neighbouring countries as help, under a grant assistance programme called “Vaccine Maitri”.
