BS Number Wise: How efficient is India's Covid-19 vaccination programme?

India averages 109 vaccinations per site and the UK 126. It has fully vaccinated only 6 per cent of its population, as against 53 per cent in the UK

India administered more than 2.2 million vaccines for Covid-19 on July 21, far less than 9 million doses it had administered on June 21. However, the country has been averaging 4.5 million vaccinations daily. The government says it has been vaccinating nearly 70 million people every fortnight—more than the UK’s entire population—but critics argue the coverage (percentage of population vaccinated) is limited.

Hence, there are two counteracting arguments about India’s vaccination strategy.

Its campaign is one of the largest in the world, having administered 415 million vaccines since January. The US, which started vaccinations in December, has administered 338 million