Coronavirus LIVE Updates: Maharashtra’s Weekly Vaccination Count Drops; Over 7,000 Covid Ex-gratia Applications Pending in Karnataka

By Correspondent On Nov 15, 2021

Coronavirus News LIVE Updates: Maharashtra’s weekly vaccination count has dropped to a three-month low over the past two weeks, according to data in Co-WIN portal. The decrease has come as a dent in the state’s plan to vaccinate all eligible adult population with a single Covid-19 vaccine dose by the end of November. Out of the state’s eligible population of 91.4 crore, 6.91 crore (76%) have taken at least one dose and 3.34 crore (38%) are fully vaccinated. While October had 1.5 crore vaccinations in the first two weeks, this month has barely registered 44.32 lakh jabs in the first fortnight. If 10-12 lakh vaccine doses are administered daily in the next couple of weeks, the state can cover the remaining 2.2 crore people, Dr Sachin Desai, state immunization officer, was quoted by Times of India as saying.

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