India's vaccination coverage nearing 3 crore
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India is fast approaching total vaccination cover of 3 crore as 2,99,08,038 jabs have been administered through 5,13,065 sessions, as per the provisional report till 0700 hours on Monday, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said in a statement.
The vaccinated include 73,55,755 HCWs (1st dose), 43,05,118 HCWs (2nd dose), 73,40,423 FLWs (1st dose) and 11,50,535 FLWs (2nd Dose), 14,64,014 beneficiaries aged more than 45 years with specific co-morbidities (1st Dose) and 82,92,193 beneficiaries aged more than 60 years.
The country saw 26,291 new cases , 118 deaths and 17,455 recoveries in the past 24 hours.
Five States--Maharashtra, Punjab, Karnataka, Gujarat and Tamil Nadu continue to report a surge in the COVID daily new cases. They cumulatively account for 78.41 per cent of the new cases reported in the past 24 hours.
Six States account for 82.20 per cent of the new deaths. Maharashtra saw the maximum casualties (50). Punjab follows with 20 daily deaths and Kerala reported15 deaths in the last 24 hours.
A rising trajectory of daily new cases is visible in eight states. These are Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Punjab, Madhya Pradesh, Delhi, Gujarat, Karnataka and Haryana.
Kerala has a consistently declining trend over last one month.
