COVID-19 UPDATES AS ON 23.2.2021

 

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

India’s Active Caseload below 1.5 lakh; stands at 1.47 lakh today

India’s Cumulative Vaccination coverage has crossed 1.17 crore

Daily Fatalities below 100; No new COVID Fatality reported in 21 States/UTs in the last 24 hours

Posted On: 23 FEB 2021 11:38AM by PIB Delhi

The country’s Active Caseload has fallen below 1.50 lakh. It stands at 1,47,306 today. The present active caseload now consists of 1.34% of India’s total Positive Cases.

10,584 new daily cases have been recorded in the last 24 hours whereas 13,255 recoveries registered in the last 24 hours. It has led to a net decline of 2,749 cases in the total active caseload.

India’s daily Positivity Rate remains below 3%. 

India has recorded a steady decline in the number of daily new deaths.78 deaths were reported in the last 24 hours.

Also, twenty one States/UTs have not reported any COVID19 deaths in the last 24 hours. These are Madhya Pradesh, Assam, Rajasthan, Haryana, J&K, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Goa, Himachal Pradesh, Puducherry, Lakshadweep, Manipur, Sikkim, Tripura, Ladakh, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh, A&N Islands, D&D and D&N.

 

As on 22^nd February, 2021, the vaccination coverage was 1,17,45,552 through 2,44,877 sessions, as per the provisional report till 8 am today. These include 64,51,251 HCWs (1st dose), 12,58,177 HCWs (2nd dose) and 40,36,124 FLWs (1st dose).

The 2nd dose of COVID19 vaccination started on 13^th February, 2021 for those beneficiaries who have completed 28 days after receipt of the 1st dose. Vaccination of the FLWs started on 2^nd Feb 2021.

 

S. No.	State/UT	Beneficiaries vaccinated
		1st Dose	2nd Dose	Total Doses
1	A & N Islands	5,442	1,870	7,312
2	Andhra Pradesh	4,27,444	1,02,376	5,29,820
3	Arunachal Pradesh	21,318	5,332	26,650
4	Assam	1,65,110	13,992	1,79,102
5	Bihar	5,26,159	56,791	5,82,950
6	Chandigarh	14,198	1,089	15,287
7	Chhattisgarh	3,50,716	28,186	3,78,902
8	Dadra & Nagar Haveli	5,019	252	5,271
9	Daman & Diu	1,767	254	2,021
10	Delhi	3,15,841	22,788	3,38,629
11	Goa	15,542	1,269	16,811
12	Gujarat	8,24,119	73,547	8,97,666
13	Haryana	2,13,802	41,811	2,55,613
14	Himachal Pradesh	96,278	12,412	1,08,690
15	Jammu & Kashmir	2,10,544	9,315	2,19,859
16	Jharkhand	2,61,339	13,394	2,74,733
17	Karnataka	5,53,888	1,40,076	6,93,964
18	Kerala	4,05,697	56,232	4,61,929
19	Ladakh	6,610	610	7,220
20	Lakshadweep	2,333	591	2,924
21	Madhya Pradesh	6,43,277	32,124	6,75,401
22	Maharashtra	9,16,977	68,978	9,85,955
23	Manipur	41,799	1,798	43,597
24	Meghalaya	25,998	960	26,958
25	Mizoram	15,749	3,052	18,801
26	Nagaland	23,391	4,418	27,809
27	Odisha	4,43,401	1,22,741	5,66,142
28	Puducherry	9,356	981	10,337
29	Punjab	1,27,528	20,538	1,48,066
30	Rajasthan	7,82,710	62,183	8,44,893
31	Sikkim	13,384	775	14,159
32	Tamil Nadu	3,49,527	36,073	3,85,600
33	Telangana	2,81,365	1,05,936	3,87,301
34	Tripura	84,254	15,066	99,320
35	Uttar Pradesh	11,40,754	86,021	12,26,775
36	Uttarakhand	1,33,636	9,682	1,43,318
37	West Bengal	6,73,939	69,651	7,43,590
38	Miscellaneous	3,57,164	35,013	3,92,177
	Total	1,04,87,375	12,58,177	1,17,45,552

 

On Day-38 of the vaccination drive (22^ndFebruary, 2021), 6,28,696 vaccine doses were given. Out of which, 3,38,373 beneficiaries were vaccinated across 12,560 sessions for 1^st dose (HCWs and FLWs) and 2,90,323 HCWs received 2^nd dose of vaccine.

Out of total 1,17,45,552 vaccine doses, 1,04,87,375 (HCWs and FLWs) have received 1^st dose of vaccine and total 12,58,177 HCWs have received the 2^nd dose of vaccine.

51.66% of the total vaccine doses are concentrated in 7 States. Uttar Pradesh alone accounts for 10.4% (12,26,775 doses). 

61.15% of the second vaccine doses are concentrated in 8 States. Karnataka alone accounts for 11.13% (1,40,076 doses).

India’s cumulative recoveries stand at 1.07 Cr (1,07,12,665) today. The Recovery Rate is 97.22% today. The gap between total recovered cases and the active cases is constantly rising and stands at 10,565,359 today.

86.56% of the new recovered cases are observed to be concentrated in 6 States.

Kerala has reported maximum number of single daily recoveries with 5,037 newly recovered cases. 5,035 people recovered in Maharashtra followed by 461 in Tamil Nadu.

84% of the new cases are from 6 States.

Maharashtra continues to report the highest daily new cases at 5,210. It is followed by Kerala with 2,212 while Tamil Nadu reported 449 new cases.

Six States account for 84.62% of the new deaths. Maharashtra saw the maximum casualties (18). Kerala reported 16 deaths and Punjab reported 15 deaths.

 

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Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

States/UTs roll out Intensified Mission Indradhanush (IMI) 3.0 

Children and Pregnant Women who missed Immunisation during the COVID-19 pandemic will be identified to catch up with vaccine doses

More than 29,000 children and 5,000 pregnant women covered on Day 1

Posted On: 23 FEB 2021 1:43PM by PIB Delhi

 

Various States and UTs have started implementation of the Intensified Mission Indradhanush 3.0, a campaign aimed to reach those children and pregnant women who have been missed out or been left out of the Routine Immunisation Programme.  This is aimed to accelerate the full immunization of children and pregnant women through a mission mode intervention. The first phase has been rolled out from 22nd Feb 2021 for fifteen days.  

The Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare, Dr Harsh Vardhan, launched the campaign on 19^th February, 2021 and urged the States and district functionaries to reach each and every child and attain maximum Full Immunization Coverage.  The campaign has exemplified ownership of the immunization program by top most leadership at the state level also. The campaign in Uttar Pradesh was inaugurated by the Chief Minister, Shri Yogi Adityanath on 21^st February 2021.  The campaign was kicked off in Rajasthan with its Health Minister Dr Raghu Sharma inaugurating the programme on 22^nd February 2021.  In Madhya Pradesh, Dr Prabhu Ram Choudhary, State Health Minister inaugurated the campaign in a function held at Bhopal on 22^nd February 2021.  

The campaign is scheduled to have two rounds of immunization lasting 15 days (excluding Routine immunization and holidays). It is being conducted in pre-identified 250 districts/urban areas across 29 States/UTs in the country.  Beneficiaries from migration areas and hard to reach areas will be targeted as they may have missed their vaccine doses during COVID19. As per the Guidelines released for IMI 3.0, the districts have been classified to reflect 313 low risk; 152 as medium risk; and 250 as high risk districts.

Adherence to COVID Appropriate Behaviour (CAB) during the immunization activities has been strongly emphasized. States have been asked to follow "Staggered Approach" to avoid crowding at the session sites and even plan break-up sessions if staggered approach is not effective to avoid crowding. The sessions are also planned in such a way that not more than 10 beneficiaries are present at the session site at one given point in time. 

During the first round of IMI 3.0, the campaign is targeting children and pregnant women who might have missed their vaccine doses due to the COVID pandemic. As per data reported till 1700 hrs. on 22^nd February, nearly 29,000 children and 5,000 pregnant women were vaccinated (data provisional).

IMI 3.0 campaign spearheaded by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), will be implemented in mission-mode with support from key departments, as well as a strong network of partners and civil society organizations, youth groups, and community members. It will be taken as an opportunity to catch up on any immunization gaps that might have emerged due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

 

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