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At current pace, vaccination target in Manipur to be met by August: Official
The vaccination rate was low at the initial stages but it gradually increased in the recent past. On July 14, 34,194 doses including 29,824 first and 4,370 second doses were administered, the highest in a single day in Manipur.
Manipur has so far administered 1.010 million doses of Covid vaccines including 900,954 first and 109,401 second doses to the residents, according to official reports.
Till date, a total of 408,683 first doses and 1,266 second doses of Covid vaccine were given to residents in the 18-44 years age bracket; 232,212 first doses and 18,210 second doses given to residents in 45-59 years age bracket, besides 118,975 first doses and 9214 second doses to people above 60 years since the beginning of the vaccination drive on January 16 this year.
Among all the 16 hill districts, a maximum of 265,037 doses were administered in Imphal West district and the least, 7,909, doses were administered in Kamjong, a hill district, data shows.
In the 10 districts where the district administration had promised cash rewards for motivating people for vaccination, the maximum of 82,812 doses were given in Churachandpur and a minimum of 15,410 doses were given in Tamenglong district.
The vaccination rate was low at the initial stages but it gradually increased in the recent past. On July 14, 34,194 doses including 29,824 first and 4,370 second doses were administered, the highest in a single day in the state.
Similarly 27,282 and 27,149 doses were administered on July 15 and 16 respectively.
“If the present day vaccination trend continues, we may achieve our target by August this year,” says mission director Dr N Shyamjai of the State Health Society, Manipur.”The state has nearly two million residents eligible (18 years and above) for the Covid-19 vaccination programme.”
On Friday, the state recorded more than 1,000 new cases for the third consecutive day with 1128 new positive cases detected out of 7,184 samples tested. The state’s total infection tally has increased to 82,688. The total number of active cases also increased to 9,033.
The state also recorded 10 fatalities of Covid 19 patients in the last 24 hours, taking the state’s Covid 19 death toll to 1350, official sources said. With 643 new recoveries, the total number of recovered Covid 19 cases reached 72,305. The recovery rate stands at 87.44%.
