NEW DELHI: Friday, the first day of the Centre’s 75-day drive to provide Covid vaccine booster shots to the 18-59 age group, saw 13.2 lakh doses of the precaution dose being administered to this age group across the country, a 16-fold jump over the pace thus far.
As of Thursday, India had administered just over 78.1 lakh doses of the precaution doses to those below 60 years of age, an average of about 81,000 doses a day since the third shot was made available to this age group on April 10.
