In a significant development in the mega COVID-19 vaccination drive, India has recorded a new high in the numbers of people vaccinated across the country in a single day, since the launch of the drive and the development had displayed that India is at the peak of the vaccination program, unlike any other foreign country. 

On Thursday, for the first time since the launch of the vaccination drive, India had vaccinated over 1 million people in a single day. The reports say that the feat of highest single-day vaccination was attained when the country has been recording a sharp increase in the immunization sites. The development of vaccinating over 10 lakh people in a single day has come when India is four days into the second phase of the vaccination drive. 

According to the Union Health Ministry, around 10,93,954 people including healthcare workers, frontline workers, senior citizens, and those above 45 years with specified comorbidities had received the shot on Thursday through which India had vaccinated over 1.77 crore people so far since the start of the vaccination drive on January 16. 

The Ministry stated that the major share of the vaccination recorded on Thursday was contributed by senior citizens with over 45% of participation and over 4.93 lakh doses were administered to people above 60 years of age as part of the second phase of the vaccination drive. The vaccination drive has been getting rolled out amid a steady rise in the COVID-19 cases. 

Armed with two indigenous vaccines of Covaxin and Covishield, India had begun the first phase of the vaccination drive on January 16 with the target of inoculating three crore frontline workers and amid the first phase, the country had begun its second phase of the vaccination drive on March 1 to vaccinate the people over 60 years and people over 45 years with specific comorbidities.

As India has been unfolding one of the major vaccination drives, the country aims to vaccinate 300 million people by July. According to the Union Health Ministry, a total of 1,77,11,287 vaccine doses have been inoculated in India so far as of Thursday and these total counts include 68,38,077 healthcare workers who had received the first dose and 30,82,942 had received the second dose. So far, 60, 22,136 frontline workers had taken the first dose and 54,177 frontline workers had received the second dose.