New Delhi: India has achieved a new milestone by administrating over 1 crore COVID-19 vaccine doses across the country. The numbers are the highest achieved by India on a single day since the beginning of the mass vaccination drive on January 16.
The data of 1.09 crore vaccinations is as per the provisional reports received till 7 PM on Tuesday.
Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya had on Tuesday tweeted, "Congratulations, as India administers another 1 crore Covid 19 vaccinations today. The highest one-day record of 1.09 crore vaccine doses achieved till 6 pm - and still counting! Under PM Narendra Modi Ji, India is fighting strongly against Corona."
1 Crore, 2 Times, in 5 days
Congratulations, as India administers another 1 crore #COVID19 vaccinations today
Highest one-day record of 1.09 crore vaccine doses achieved till 6 pm - and still counting!
Under PM @NarendraModi ji, India is fighting strongly against corona. pic.twitter.com/ByEECsn1T5
— Mansukh Mandaviya (@mansukhmandviya) August 31, 2021
Five days back, India had administered over 1 crore (1,08,83,963) vaccine doses for the first time. India`s COVID vaccination coverage has now crossed 65 crore (65,12,14,767) doses.
India took 85 days to touch the figure of 10 crore. It then took 45 days to cross the 20-crore mark and 29 more days to reach 30 crore. The country took 24 days to reach 40 crore and then 20 more days to cross 50 crore vaccinations on August 6. It took 19 more days to go past the 60-crore mark on August 25.
According to an official source, on average 74.09 lakh vaccine doses have been administered daily in India in the last one week.
"No other country has been vaccinating its people at such a fast pace as India.
"India is at pole position in the number of vaccine doses administered daily followed by Brazil which is administering on an average 17.04 lakh doses each day," the source said.
India administered 17 crore vaccine shots in the shortest period of 114 days which is a world record. The US took 115 days and China took 119 days to administer the same number of doses, official sources said.
On August 27, India administered over one crore vaccine doses in a day, a feat which no other country has been able to emulate yet, the source said, adding it is like vaccinating the entire population of New Zealand twice.
India then went ahead and broke its own record within five days by administering 1.09 crore doses till 6 PM.
(With Agency Inputs)
