1.4% of State population yet to take vaccine first dose

60.4% of targeted beneficiaries are fully vaccinated

Around 1.4% of the eligible population in Telangana remain to receive the first dose of COVID-19 vaccine, while 40% more are yet to receive the second dose.

Of the 2,77,67,000 eligible beneficiaries above the age of 18 years, a total of 2,73,84,439 persons have received the first dose, which is 98.62% of the target population. As far as the second dose is concerned, 1,67,92,902 have taken it. That takes the fully-vaccinated population to 60.4% of the target.

Health Minister T. Harish Rao has earlier set December-end as the deadline to achieve cent per cent vaccination. Ground-level health staff were dedicated to administer vaccines. After the first cases of Omicron was detected in Telangana a week ago, the staff had to get focus on tracing contacts of the people with the variant.