INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Health workers vaccinated in Tamil Nadu and Gujarat outnumber those who had registered for jabFigures do tell a tale
This is evident from the fact that while 81 per cent of total health care workers who had registered themselves on the Co-WIN portal across
the country, for receiving the first dose of Covid vaccine, had got the jab, the percentage of those workers who actually got vaccinated in
90,71,329 health care workers across the country, who had registered themselves on the Co-WIN portal for receiving the first dose of
Covid-19 vaccine, around 81 per cent of them or 73,55,755 got the jab.Interestingly however, the health workers from Gujarat, Tamil Nadu and
the union territory of Ladakh, who got vaccinated, crossed the 100 per cent mark
In other words, the number of health care workers who got the jab in these places far exceeded the number of those who had registered
themselves on the portal.These figures, updated till March 15, 2021, have been provided by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, which
also give state-wise details of health care workers who got themselves registered on the portal and the actual number of workers who
received the first dose of the vaccine.According to these figures, while 3,75,945 health care workers had got themselves registered on the
Co-WIN portal for receiving the first dose of the Covid vaccine in Gujarat, an astonishing 4,39,415 workers received the jab
That is, 116 per cent of them got the first dose.Similarly in Tamil Nadu, while 3,39,616 health workers had registered themselves for
getting vaccinated, whereas 3,49,392 of them or 102 per cent of them actually got the jab.The union territory of Ladakh had witnessed
registration of 3,131 health care workers for receiving the first dose of the Covid vaccine
However in actuality, 3,964 or 126 per cent of them got vaccinated.
