Odisha clocks 10% rise in new COVID-19 cases: 60% adult population fully vaccinated
One fresh fatality took the death toll to 8,442 while the Test Positivity Rate (TPR) at 0.27% continued to remain below 1% for almost two months.
In the midst of decreasing COVID-19 positive cases, Odisha has achieved a milestone with 50% of the vaccine-eligible adult population in the 0-18 year age group being fully vaccinated.
The State’s health authorities have so far administered 4,30,55,912 (4.30 crore) COVID-19 vaccine doses while 1,53,55,276 (1.53 crore) people out of 3.09 crore eligible adult population are fully vaccinated. Over 50% of the eligible population has so far received both doses of vaccine.
The coastal State has set a cent per cent coverage of the first dose target by December end while almost 90% of the eligible adult population has so far received the first dose of COVID-19 vaccine. On 12 November, four crore doses were administered. The State needs to administer 6.18 crore doses to fully vaccinate its vaccine-eligible population.
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