50% Indians are now vaccinated with at least one dose of coronavirus vaccine
New Delhi : India has set a new milestone as 50% of the eligible citizens have received at least one dose of coronavirus vaccine. Meanwhile, the nation added 44,658 new cases of coronavirus in the last 24 hours.
496 people lost their lives in the same time period.
Kerala contributed 30,077 cases in the past 24 hours to take the total number of those affected in the state by the viral infection to 39,13,506.
It must be noted that while Kerala has a positivity rate of over 19%, most of the coronavirus cases in the states are with mild sysmptoms or asymptomatic. Thus, most cases are under home quarantine -- the reason the state's health infrastructure is not overwhelmed despite the high number of cases.
No virus-related death was recorded in Delhi on Thursday, while 45 fresh cases were reported with a positivity rate of 0.06 per cent, according to the city's health department.
The daily positivity rate in India remains less than 3 per cent for the last 28 days and is presently at 2.10 per cent. Active cases constitute 1.06% of total cases, the lowest since March 2020, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate stands 97.60 per cent, the Union Health Ministry said.
Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya took to Twitter on Thursday to inform that 50 per cent of the eligible population is vaccinated with first dose of the vaccine. "India achieves unprecedented milestone! 50 per cent of the eligible population inoculated with the first dose of #COVID19 vaccine. Keep it up India. Let us fight Corona," he wrote.
