Over 56 lakh people vaccinated against Covid in India

The Centre said on Saturday that around 55 per cent of health care workers have been vaccinated in the country so far whereas nearly 5 per cent of frontline workers have received the Covid vaccine till date.

"As per the figures drawn till 6 p.m. today, 56,36,868 health care and frontline workers have been vaccinated. In which, 3,70,693 beneficiaries were the frontline while the remaining 52,66,175 were the health care workers," the Union Health Ministry said.

The inoculation exercise of health care workers started from January 16 whereas the frontline workers started receiving vaccine shots from February 2.