With over 3 crore covid cases, India reached the 2nd position after United States in total number of cases. Out of these total cases, over 2.9 crore people have recovered reporting a total of 3.9 lakh deaths. India, now, is getting on track after a strong hit from Covid’s second wave. The cases that were ranging above 4 lakhs everyday has now been reduced to over 50k a day. The states have eased their lockdown restrictions while in many states night curfews are still into force. More or less, normal lives are getting restored in the country and people are again moving freely onto the roads.
With this, comes the another risk of Covid’s third wave. The third wave that is said to be more dangerous than the past two waves of covid is suspected to hit the country within 6 to 8 weeks due to the negligence of the people. The government has already started the preparations for it, whether it be setting up the Oxygen plants or issuing notices to the hospitals to increase the bed allotments for covid infected patients. The government has set it’s focus on another tool for eliminating covid-19 danger and i.e., the Vaccination programs across the country.
With over 24 crore people recieving the 1st shot and 5 crore people fully vaccinated, India’s vaccination drive is on. The government has taken the responsibility to vaccinate all and is moving forward in this step. India has now pick up the pace with vaccination. 24×7 vaccination centres had been setup across various cities and towns.
The highest jabs a day was recorded on 21st June when 84 lakh people got vaccinated followed by 53 lakh, a day after and 63.2 lakhs on 23rd of this month in the age group of 18 and above.
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