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Covid vaccines: Over 15 cr jabbed in India

Covid vaccines: Over 15 cr jabbed in India

New Delhi, Apr 29 (UNI) India's cumulative vaccine coverage has exceeded 15 crore, the Union Health Ministry said here on Thursday.
As per the provisional report, cumulatively, 15,00,20,648 vaccine doses have been administered through 22,07,065 sessions. These include 93,67,520 Health Care Workers(HCWs) who have taken the 1st dose and 61,47,918 who have taken the 2nd dose, 1,23,19,903 Front Line Workers (FLWs) (1stdose), 66,12,789 FLWs (2nddose), 5,14,99,834 1st dose beneficiaries and 98,92,380 2nd dose beneficiaries more than 60-year-old and 5,10,24,886 (1st dose) and 31,55,418 (2nd dose) beneficiaries aged 45 to 60 years, the Ministry said in a statement.
On Wednesday, 21,93,281 vaccine doses were given. 12,82,135 beneficiaries were vaccinated across 20,944 sessions for 1st dose and 9,11,146 beneficiaries received 2nd dose of vaccine.

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