Government permits Covid vaccines to differently-abled and with restricted mobility at home

Rajesh Bhushan, the Union health secretary said that we are still in the middle of the second wave of Covid-19 even the cases are reducing. For the 12th consecutive week, the weekly positivity rate pursues to decline and is less than 3% while the recovery rate is 97.8% in the country said the health ministry.

A 62.73% of total infections reported last week were from Kerala, which is the only state with over 1 lakh present cases. 31,000 odd cases have been reported and most of the cases have been from Kerala and Maharashtra in the last 24 hours. The absolute numbers have reduced. 62.73% of the total cases in the last week have been from Kerala.

The government said that 66% of India’s adult population has been given at least one shot of the vaccine while 23% have got both doses.