26 Per Cent Of People Infected With Covid This Month Are 18-30 Years Old

India has been battered by a devastating second wave of infections that has seen total deaths cross the three lakh mark and active cases hit a record high of nearly 40 lakh on May 14

Nearly 26 per cent of all people infected with COVID-19 in India since May 1 are in the 18-30 age group - whose vaccination (as part of the 18-44 demographic) has run into a series of roadblocks over a shortage of doses - government data released Wednesday evening revealed. The data shows that 26.58 per cent of people who were infected between May 1 and May 7 were 18 to 30 years old. Between May 8 and May 14 that number is 25.89 per cent. The following week - May 15 to May 21 - 25.64 per cent of new cases were in the 18-30 group. And for the next three days - May 22 to May 25 - 25.60 per cent were between 18 and 30. The next highest infected age group is 31-40 years old.