India's Vaccination Milestone: 50% Adults Have Got At Least One Dose

At the current rate of vaccination, 32% of the population will be vaccinated by the year-end.

India has completed administering at least one dose of Covid vaccine to at least 50 per cent of its adult population, as 61 crore beneficiaries have been inoculated so far under the nationwide vaccination drive that began earlier this year. India achieves unprecedented milestone!% of the eligible population inoculated with the first dose of #COVID19 vaccine.Keep it up IndiaLet us fight Corona pic.twitter.com/O6ufYrnUnO #IndiaFightsCorona:More than 31.1 crore doses administered in first 67 days of the World's Largest Free-For-All Vaccination Drive launched on June 21, 2021. (As on August 27, 2021) But this fight isn't over yet, strengthen the country's endeavour by getting #Vaccinatedpic.twitter.com/bEGCEph7Ow Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said that it was an "unprecedented milestone" as he shared the information on Twitter on Tuesday. "This implies that a significant number of people in India have protection against the virus," Mr Mandaviya said in another tweet that was put on his official Twitter account.