The Narendra Modi government is planning to administer 12 crore jabs in the month of July. The World Health Organization has said that at least 10 per cent population of each country must be vaccinated against novel coronavirus by September.
India reports 46,617 new COVID19 cases, 59,384 recoveries, and 853 deaths in the last 24 hours, as per the Union Health Ministry.Total cases: 3,04,58,251Total recoveries: 2,95,48,302Active cases: 5,09,637Death toll: 4,00,312 .
Active cases constitute 1.67% of total cases. Recovery Rate increases to 97.01%. Weekly Positivity Rate currently at 2.57%. Daily positivity rate at 2.48%, less than 5% for 25 consecutive days. Testing capacity ramped up – 41.42 cr tests total conducted: Union Health Ministry. Health Ministry officials are hopeful that the vaccination drive would get a fillip if Zydus Cadila’s ZyCoV-D is the world’s first ‘needle-less’, three dose Covid vaccine gets the nod from DCGI. It is first plasmid DNA Covid vaccine. Cadila Healthcare MD Sharvil Patel said that in case the DCGI approves ZyCoV-D, the company will be able to produce 1 crore vaccine doses per month from August onwards and 5 crore doses by December this year
