3.86 crore people didn’t get second Covid-19 vaccine dose on time: Govt

A medic inoculates a beneficiary during a door-to-door COVID-19 vaccination drive, at a village near Ajmer, on Thursday. Pic/PTI

Over 3.86 crore people did not get their second COVID-19 vaccine dose within the stipulated period, the government has said in response to an RTI query. According to the information on the CoWIN portal, as of Thursday afternoon, 44,22,85,854 people have received their first dose, while 12,59,07,443 both the shots.

Activist Raman Sharma had filed a query under the Right to Information (RTI) Act, seeking to know the number of people who had received the first dose of vaccines - Covishield and Covaxin - but did not take the second within the stipulated time. In response to the query, the COVID-19 Vaccine Administration Cell of the Union health ministry said, "The total number of vaccinees (beneficiaries) who got their first dose of Covishield Vaccine but did not get their second dose within stipulated time is 3,40,72,993 (data as on 17th August 2021)."

Dailt deaths rise

India has added 36,401 new COVID-19 infections and 530 fatalities, according to Union health ministry's data updated on Thursday morning. The government had confirmed 440 fatalities on Wednesday.

56-yr-old recovers after 109 days on ventilator support

In a rare case, a Chennai man diagnosed with COVID-19 and resultant lung complications spent about 109 days on Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation and ventila-tor support, and recovered without having to undergo a lung transplant, the city hospital, which treated him, said on Thursday. Mudijja, 56, stepped out of the hospital as a healthy man today. "He became a living miracle, as none in the country has ever recovered without a lung transplant after spending over 9 weeks with ECMO support," Rela Hospital said.

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