Full Covid-19 vaccination of adults will take 7 months if pace doubled

Fully vaccinating India’s entire adult population by December looks like an uphill task as current estimates show that even by doubling the daily pace, the vaccination exercise can be completed only by the end of January 2022. At the current rate, it would take around 15 more months, or September 2022, to vaccinate adult Indians.

There are 865 million adults who require vaccination to meet the December target; according to demographic data from the Department of Economic Affairs May 2021 Monthly Economic Review. 

This translates into 1.73 billion vaccine doses, assuming a two-dose vaccination. About 50 million people have already received two