Covid-19 pandemic: 80% of Indians may be vaccinated by March 2022

Vaccine production should ramp up, June onwards, given that manufacturers are boosting capacities

About 40 per cent of India’s adult population will be fully vaccinated by November, largely through indigenous vaccine production, according to a recent Yes Securities report. By January 2022, the analysts estimate, another 20 per cent is likely to be vaccinated, thereby covering 60 per cent of the adult population. Yes Securities further estimated that by the end of this fiscal year (March 2022), about 80 per cent of the adult population will be vaccinated.

"It is pertinent to note that the vaccination threshold for herd immunity, as defined by one of WHO’s chief scientists, is 60‐70 per cent of the