Tripura emerges as India’s first 100 pc vaccinated State in 45 plus age group

AGARTALA, Jun 24
Ever since India started vaccinating its elderly population from 1st March 2021 and all above 45 years of age from 1st April, Tripura has been one of the highest percentages vaccinated States in the country. Recently, Tripura CM Biplab Kumar Deb said that Tripura wants to be India’s first State to achieve 100% vaccination for the first dose.
On June 21 and 22, a special vaccination drive was carried out in Tripura for the age group 18 to 44 years, with a target to vaccinate at least half the eligible population by the end of this month.
With India reporting the world's highest single-day vaccination on 21st June, Tripura reported 1,54,209 Covid vaccination doses on 21st June and 1,85,559 doses on 22nd June 2021. A total of 3,39,768 vaccines doses account for more than 12% of Tripura’s projected eligible population of 18 plus age. With more than 14 lakh doses administered, Tripura is now India’s first State with 100%+ vaccination in 45 plus age group.
Twitter user Aashish, who goes by the handle @KashmiriRefuge, has been maintaining a thread of tweets with various graphs covering the vaccination.
As per his data, derived with help of CoWIN tracker, Tripura has covered 102% of the eligible projected population in the vaccination drive. Speaking to OpIndia, Aashish said  “because we do not have the latest figure of census, the data of population is projected. Hence, the coverage of the population in vaccination drives is over 100%.”
Explaining it further, he said, “It is especially difficult to project exactly the 45+ population. For example, Jammu & Kashmir is reporting four 100% vaccinated districts out of 20. However, I’m sure there may be people in those districts which aren’t vaccinated but are receiving it daily. That's why Projection is the key word.”
Tripura is also projected to be leading the percentage eligible (18+ age) population vaccinated with 1st dose (60%+) and percentage eligible population with both Doses (19%+). Tripura CM also reported about fully vaccinated Gram Panchayats in Tripura.
Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb has been regularly sharing updates about various Panchayats which have become 100% vaccinated.
As of now, Tripura has recorded 63,137 total coronavirus cases of which 58,674 people have recovered. 3,785 are active cases while 655 people have lost their battle to Covid.    
On the other hand, India administered 64.89 lakh vaccine doses to the eligible beneficiaries in the last 24 hours, reports AIR. With this over 30.16 crore vaccine doses have been administered so far under Nationwide Vaccination Drive. The Union Health Ministry in a statement said that the country has reported 54 thousand 69 new cases in the last 24 hours.
The active caseload in the country has further declined and reached the level of 6 lakh 27 thousand and 57. Over 68,885 patients also recovered during the last 24 hours taking the total recoveries to more than 2 crore 90 lakh 63 thousand. The Ministry further added that daily recoveries continue to outnumber the daily new cases for the 42nd consecutive day.
The country has registered further improvement in the recovery rate which has now increased to 96.61 percent. Weekly Positivity Rate remains below 5 percent, and is currently at 3.04 percent. Daily positivity rate is at 2.91 percent, which is less than 5 percent for 17 consecutive days. The Ministry said, testing capacity has been substantially ramped up and 39.78 crore tests for Covid-19 have been conducted in total.
Courtesy-OpIndia.com