Studies among healthcare workers have shown that following Covid-19 vaccination, the chances of hospitalisation reduce by 75-80 per cent even after contracting the infection and oxygen requirement was required only in 8 per cent cases, the government said on Friday. The risk of ICU admission is only 6% in vaccinated persons, it said.

While the probability of getting Covid-19 after vaccination is reduced considerably as these vaccines are up to 85 to 90% , those who get the infection after the vaccination are mild cases and hospitalisation is not required in most cases, a senior official explained.

Overall the ferocious second Covid wave is receding as there has been an almost 85 per cent decline in the daily fresh cases since the highest reported peak on May 7, the government informed.

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A 78.6 per cent decline has been recorded in the total number of active COVID-19 cases since the peak reported on May 10, it added.

A sharp decline of 81 per cent has been noted in weekly case positivity rate. It was the highest at 21.6 per cent between April 30-May 6. There are now 513 districts with COVID-19 positivity rate less than 5 per cent, it said. The positivity rate shows the number of cases that turn out to be positive for Covid-19 in every 100 tests that are carried out.

The daily positivity rate nationwide is 3.24% and has been less than 5% for 11 consecutive days at the same time testing capacity has been substantially ramped up with  38.71 crore tests total conducted, the official statement said.

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Vaccination drive 

As part of the nationwide vaccination drive, the Government of India has been supporting the States and UTs by providing them COVID Vaccines free of cost. Implementation of the Liberalized and Accelerated Phase-3 Strategy of Covid-19 Vaccination has started from 1st May 2021.

More than 27.90 crore (27,90,66,230) vaccine doses have been provided to States/UTs so far, through Government of India (free of cost channel) and through direct state procurement category, according to the official statement.

Of this, the total consumption, including wastages is 25,32,65,825 doses (as per data available at 8 AM on Friday).

More than 2.58 crore (2,58,00,405) COVID vaccine doses are still available with the States/UTs to be administered.

Furthermore, more than 19,95,770 vaccine doses are in the pipeline and will be received by the States/UTs within the next 3 days.