draw a bar graph to represent the number of people vaccinated with vaccine and the number of people with covishield in India
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COVID-19 vaccine data analysis: At current rate of 2.2mn doses per day, India can only cover 30% population by end-2021
Free universal vaccination across classes and regions may be the only way to ensure maximum coverage
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Step-by-step explanation:
If India wants to cover at least 80 percent of its eligible population, i.e., 80 percent of the population above 18 years of age by the end of this year, then it must increase its vaccination rate by about 100 million doses/month. At the current rate of vaccination, which is about 2.2 million doses administered per day, only 30 percent of the eligible population will be vaccinated fully by the end of this year.
The gap that exists between vaccine requirement and supply, to cover even a section of the eligible population, could have been reduced significantly by better planning.
The need
The slogan of the COVAX initiative co-led by the World Health Organisation to ensure equitable access to vaccines across the word is, “No one is safe, unless everyone is safe”. It implies that near universal vaccination is essential to avoid a resurgence of the virus, as we are now witnessing with the second wave in India.
To achieve universal vaccination in India we would need to administer 1878 million doses to vaccinate the approximately 939 million adults in the country (assuming 2 doses/person).
Of these, about 35 percent doses (i.e. about 650 million doses) would be needed in urban areas. Given that the population density in urban areas is higher, increasing the risk of contagion, and that infrastructure to administer the vaccine is also more easily available, the government could have planned to cover the urban population first. At the current rate of vaccination, it may be difficult to cover even the urban population completely by the end of this year. The story varies by states as well.