Shawdesh Desk:

India has become the fastest country in the world to achieve over 70 lakh vaccinations against COVID-19 in only 26 days, while it took 27 days for the US and 48 days for the UK to reach the same figures, the Union Health Ministry said on Thursday.

The ministry also highlighted that 17 states and UTs have not reported any deaths in the last 24 hours.

Till 8am on February 11, more than 70 lakh beneficiaries have been administered shots under the countrywide COVID-19 vaccination exercise.

The total cumulative vaccination coverage of 70,17,114 includes 57,05,228 healthcare workers (HCWs) and 13,11,886 frontline workers (FLWs), the ministry

Seven states and UTs have reported less than 40 per cent vaccinations of the registered healthcare workers (HCWs).

The country has recorded 1,42,562 active cases in a span of 24 hours.The total active cases of the country now comprise merely 1.31 per cent of the total infections.

Further, 85.11 per cent of the new cases are from six states.

(PTI)