62,86,379 Anti-Covid Vaccines The Union Health Ministry said that the total number of immunizations across the country till 7 pm on Friday rose to above 89.67 crore (89,67,51,334).
Overall, 36,32,00,842 persons in the 18-44 category across all states and union territories have received their first dose and a total of 8,49,70,800 people have received their second dose since the start of the third phase of the vaccination campaign. have received. .
A total of 16,02,17,234 people in the 45-59 age group have received the first dose of vaccine so far and 7,74,50,693 have received both the doses.
A total of 34,82,064 beneficiaries were vaccinated with the first dose till day 259 of the vaccination campaign and 28,04,315 beneficiaries received the second dose of vaccine as per provisional reports till 7 pm.
The daily vaccination numbers are expected to increase with the compilation of the final report for the day by late night.
vaccine supply
According to official documents, the Center has received over 65.25 crore Covishield doses from Serum Institute of India and 91 crore Covaxin doses from Bharat Biotech till September 19.
SII has supplied 20.29 lakh doses of Covishield to the Union health ministry in September, as did Prakash Kumar Singh, director of government and regulatory affairs at the Pune-based firm, in August.
The company has informed the government that it will be able to supply around 22 crore doses of Covishield in October.
Official sources said the Center has announced resumption of export of surplus vaccines in the fourth quarter of the current financial year under the ‘Vaccine Friendship’ program to meet its commitment towards the Covax Global Pool.
According to Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya, the government will receive over 30 crore doses of Kovid-19 vaccines in October and over 100 crore doses in the coming quarter from October-December.
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