Zoom News : Jun 23, 2021, 01:37 PM
New Delhi: On Day 2 of Centre's new vaccination policy, more than 53 lakh people were given Covid-19 vaccines on Tuesday. According to the information available on the Cowin portal till 11.59 pm, 53,86,951 people were administered the vaccine in India on June 22.Of these, 47,55,674 were given the first dose of vaccine and 6,31,277 were given the second dose. Side effects were recorded in 59 people after getting the vaccine.The number of males who got the jabs was 28,55,609 while 25,30,203 females got the vaccine dose.On Monday, India achieved the milestone of highest daily vaccinations by administering over 88 lakh COVID-19 jabs. The Union Health Ministry said that 63.7 per cent of the total vaccine doses administered on Monday were in villages and 36 per cent were in urban areas. "46 per cent of the people who received the vaccine yesterday were women and 53 per cent were men. We have to work on this imbalance, create awareness among women and bring them forward," NITI Aayog member Dr VK Paul said, urging that the 'imbalance' needed to be worked upon.The latest IANS C-Voter Covid Tracker has shown that overall, 80 per cent in India are pro-vaccine, which is almost 10 per cent more positive than the American public sentiment on vaccines.Yashwant Deshmukh, Founder-Director of CVoter, said, "In fact, India happens to be among the most pro-vaccine countries in the world. I don't even know why exactly such subjective stories are done by some agencies, which only suits the weird narrative of India still being a country of snake charmers."He added, "In our Covid tracker, we have done the cross tabs even on the lines of caste and religion. Yes, the upper caste and OBC are more open to vaccination when compared to the tribal populations and Muslims in India, but even they are Nett positive on vaccination drive. Overall, more than 80 per cent in India are pro-vaccine. This is almost 10 per cent more positive than the American public sentiment on vaccines."