NEW DELHI: The total number of
healthcare workers inoculated with the first dose of Covid-19 vaccines crossed 41 lakh on Tuesday. Gujarat and
West Bengal started vaccinating frontline workers simultaneously.
The two states - Gujarat and West Bengal – together inoculated 19,902 frontline workers on Tuesday. More states are likely to begin vaccinating frontline workers this week.
A total of 1,70,585 beneficiaries were vaccinated on Tuesday till late evening taking the total to 41,20,741 beneficiaries so far.
"Final reports would be completed for the day by late tonight," the health ministry said.
The government aims to inoculate over 92.61 lakh healthcare workers across the country, minister of state for health Ashwini Choubey told the Rajya Sabha. Of this, around 44% have been vaccinated so far with the first dose. The second dose will be given with a gap of 28 days or four weeks.
The government plans to inoculate the first three crore health and frontline workers on priority by April.
While 3,785 vaccination sessions were held across the country on Tuesday, overall 76,516 sessions have been conducted in the last 18 days since the launch of the massive drive on January 16.
States have been asked to conduct multiple sessions to accelerate the drive.