Day 52: Senior citizens make up 61% of vaccine beneficiaries

New Delhi, March 9 : India recorded the highest single-day vaccination on Monday with an achievement of a total of 16,96,588 vaccine doses administered till 7 pm in the day, informed the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
However, around 61 per cent of these doses were received by those aged above 60 years.
10,33,480 senior citizens were inoculated across the country.
Meanwhile, 14,30,954 beneficiaries were vaccinated for the first dose while 2,65,634 healthcare workers (HCW)s and Frontline workers (FLW)s received the second dose of vaccine as per the provisional report. Final reports would be completed for the day by late tonight, the ministry added.
The current phase of vaccination is dominated by the elderly population as the trend of high turnout among senior citizens is witnessed since the beginning of the third phase, which continued on Monday as well. 53.8 per cent of the vaccination conducted on Saturday was contributed by people above 60 years of age. On Friday, their (senior citizens) share was 48 per cent while it was 45 per cent on Thursday.
The enthusiasm witnessed among those aged above 60 years of age has given a much-needed push to the vaccination target as well, pushing the cumulative number of Covid-19 vaccine doses administered in the country, which has crossed 2.2 crore today.