To Stop 3rd Wave, India Needs 8.7 Million Jabs A Day. Actual Rate Is...

With every day's shortfall, the required number of vaccinations per day, currently at 8.6 million, rises.

India is praying hard that a third wave of Covid doesn't run rampage through the country. Administrators, health professionals, and vaccine makers are working hard to prevent such an eventuality. However, the rate at which the country is vaccinating itself may fall considerably short of the requirement to avoid another upsurge of infections. It has been estimated that to prevent a third Covid wave India must inoculate at least 60 per cent of its over 1.3 billion population with both doses of a vaccine by December this year. For this, it must administer the injections to 8.6 million people every single day. Yet, for a little more than a week now, the country has been vaccinating at a rate of about 4 million people a day, a shortfall of 4.6 million. On Sunday, just 1.5 million people received their shots, which is less than the target by 7.1 million.