New Delhi: In a significant milestone in its fight against COVID-19, India’s cumulative recoveries has exceeded 3 Crore people. Out of the people infected since the beginning of the pandemic, 3,00,14,713 people have already recovered from COVID-19 and 39,649 patients have recovered in the last 24 hours.
This constitutes an overall recovery rate of 97.22%, which is showing a sustained increasing trend. On the other hand, India’s cumulative vaccination coverage exceeded 37.73 crore. A total of 37,73,52,501 vaccine doses have been administered through 48,51,209 sessions, as per the provisional report till 7 am today. 12,35,287 vaccine doses were administered in the last 24 hours.
The vaccination drive has been ramped up through availability of more vaccines, advance visibility of vaccine availability to States and UTs for enabling better planning by them, and streamlining the vaccine supply chain. As part of the nationwide vaccination drive, Government of India has been supporting the States and UTs by providing them COVID Vaccines free of cost.
In the new phase of the universalization of the COVID19 vaccination drive, the Union Government will procure and supply (free of cost) 75% of the vaccines being produced by the vaccine manufacturers in the country to States and UTs.
More than 38.86 crore vaccine doses have been provided to States/UTs so far, through all sources and a further 63,84,230 doses are in the pipeline. Of this, the total consumption including wastages is 37,31,88,834 doses as on 12th July 2021.
More than 1.54 Cr balance and unutilized COVID Vaccine doses are still available with the States/UTs and private hospitals to be administered.
