New Delhi: On June 21, India inoculated 85 lakh people with Covid vaccines. That is almost twice the previous high of 43 lakh vaccinations done on April 5. With this new record, India can soon hope to reach near the one-crore daily vaccination target that it aims to achieve in August. If a target of 75 lakh doses a day is set, then how long will India take to vaccinate its entire adult population i.e. 94.02 crore Indians above 18 years of age as per the Census 2011 projection?
A large population of India is still unvaccinated. As per data on June 20, 22.87 crores have been partially vaccinated and 5.12 crore are fully vaccinated with both doses which means India has 28 crore, people, either fully or partially vaccinated. That means the country has to vaccinate around 66.02 crore, people, more. As many as 66.02 crore people mean 66.02 crore vaccine doses for partial and 132.04 crore vaccine doses for complete Covid vaccination. Now if the country manages to vaccinate 75 lakh people per day, it would take 88 days to partially vaccinate the entire adult population.
In order to fully vaccinate the entire adult population, India will have to vaccinate 88.89 crore people. Out of this 22.87 crore have received the first dose and need another dose of vaccine to get fully vaccinated, i.e., 22.87 crore doses. This will be in addition to the 132.04 crore vaccine doses required for the unvaccinated 66.02 crore population.
If we vaccinate 75 lakh doses per day, 176 days will be needed for 66.02 crore unvaccinated people to get two doses of the vaccine, that includes the gap between both doses of the vaccine as well plus 31 days for 22.87 crore unvaccinated people which adds to 207 days to fully vaccinate the entire Indian population.
