India overtakes USA in total number of COVID Vaccine doses administered

June 28: India has achieved another milestone in its COVID19 vaccination drive as it overtakes USA in terms of the total number of COVID vaccine doses administered. India’s COVID Vaccination drive started on 16th Jan 2021, whereas the COVID vaccination in USA started on 14^th December 2020.

India’s cumulative vaccination coverage has exceeded 32.36 Crores yesterday. A total of 32,36,63,297 vaccine doses have been administered through 43,21,898 sessions, as per the provisional report till 7 am today. 17,21,268 vaccine doses were administered in the last 24 hours.

The new phase of universalization of COVID-19 vaccination commenced from 21 June, 2021. The Union Government is committed to accelerating the pace and expanding the scope of COVID19 vaccination throughout the country.

India’s vaccination drive keeps gaining momentum!

Congrats to all those who are driving this effort.

Our commitment remains vaccines for all, free for all.

सबको वैक्सीन, मुफ्त वैक्सीन। https://t.co/VK15ZPHMUm

— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) June 28, 2021

While on one side testing capacity has been enhanced across the country, a continued decline in weekly case positivity is noticed. Weekly Positivity Rate is currently at 2.81% while the Daily Positivity rate stands at 2.94% today.It has remained less than 5% for 21 consecutive days now.