India took solely 92 days to succeed in the mark of 12-crore vaccinations, the quickest nation to take action, the Union Health Ministry stated on Sunday. It’s adopted by the US which took 97 days and China which took 108 days.

The cumulative variety of COVID-19 vaccine doses administered within the nation has crossed 12 crore as a part of the world’s largest vaccination drive, it stated.

Cumulatively, 12,26,22,590 vaccine doses have been administered by 18,15,325 classes, as per the provisional report until 7 am.

These embrace 91,28,146 healthcare workers (HCWs) who’ve taken the primary dose and 57,08,223 HCWs who’ve taken the second dose, 1,12,33,415 FLWs who’ve obtained the primary dose and 55,10,238 FLWs who’ve taken the second dose.

In addition to, 4,55,94,522 and 38,91,294 beneficiaries aged greater than 60 have been administered the primary and second dose respectively and 4,04,74,993 and 10,81,759 beneficiaries aged 45 to 60 years have taken the primary and second dose respectively.

Eight states account for 59.5 per cent of the whole doses given to this point within the nation.

“The 4 states Gujarat (1,03,37,448), Maharashtra (1,21,39,453), Rajasthan (1,06,98,771) and UP (1,07,12,739) have to this point administered greater than 1 crore doses every to their inhabitants. Gujarat accomplished 1 crore vaccinations on April 16 whereas the opposite three states achieved it on April 14,” the ministry stated.

“India took solely 92 days to succeed in 12 crore vaccinations, the quickest nation to take action. It’s adopted by the US which took 97 days and China (108 days),” the ministry acknowledged.

Over 26 lakh vaccination doses have been administered in a span of 24 hours.

As of day-92 of the vaccination drive (April 17), 26,84,956 vaccine doses got. A complete of 20,22,599 beneficiaries have been vaccinated throughout 39,998 classes for the primary dose and 6,62,357 beneficiaries obtained the second dose of vaccine, it acknowledged.