Vaccination picks up in March, but second dose takers are missing

Three weeks have passed since second dose inoculation began. However, in 22 days since it started, some 1.4 million potential beneficiaries who took the first dose have not taken the second

Since India began the second phase of Covid-19 vaccination in March, citizens above 60 are queuing up at government-run vaccination centres and private hospitals. Since the first phase of vaccination that started on  January 17, till the end of February, healthcare workers (HCWs) and frontline workers (FLWs such as police and teachers) were inoculated.

Business Standard analysed the vaccination data maintained by covid19india.org, the independent—and only—group that publishes daily data on the Covid-19 epidemic in India based on press releases by central and state government agencies.

As the second phase began, there has been a clear jump in daily rate