Chhattisgarh, Punjab, and Mizoram lag behind other states in administering second dose of COVID-19 vaccinations

• Indian government has been reportedly resisting calls for another nationwide lockdown due to several concerns.
• The union government has so far supplied over 18 crore vaccination doses free of cost to the states and union territories.
• India lost over 25,700 people in the first week of May 2021 alone to the pandemic’s second wave.

Amongst all the states in India — excluding Union Territories (UTs) — Chhattisgarh, Punjab and Mizoram report the lowest percentage in administering the second dose of COVID-19 vaccines.

The percentage of the vaccinated population that has completed both the doses in these states stand at 20, 20 and 21 respectively.

India lost over 25,700 people in the first week of May 2021 alone to the pandemic’s second wave. The cases registered with the private and government run hospitals alone totalled to 2.7 million during this seven day period.

Indian government has been reportedly resisting calls for another nationwide lockdown due to several concerns. However, the state administrations have quickly responded by announcing localised restrictions and curfews.

The union government has so far supplied over 18 crore vaccination doses free of cost to the states and union territories. During the last 24 hours alone over 24 lakhs of Covid-19 doses have been administered.

The fact that Chhattisgarh, Punjab and Mizoram are trailing behind other states with their lowest percentage of vaccination insists that they must now act quickly to boost up the vaccination programme inside their territories to save more lives.

State/UT	People who have taken first dose	People who have taken both the doses	Total doses administered	Percentage of people who have taken the second dose in total vaccinated population
A & N Islands	98,564	14,245	112809	14
Chhattisgarh	4957168	984556	5941724	20
Punjab	3389032	683655	4072687	20
Mizoram	235142	50,405	285547	21
Madhya Pradesh	7273080	1585930	8859010	22
Haryana	3769135	839944	4609079	22
Telangana	4380920	1007437	5388357	23
Jharkhand	2741173	630878	3372051	23
Jammu & Kashmir	2251992	518548	2770540	23
Himachal Pradesh	1708753	401731	2110484	24
Meghalaya	302280	72,250	374530	24
Manipur	288458	69,225	357683	24
Bihar	6638656	1628241	8266897	25
Rajasthan	11793385	2898602	14691987	25
Maharashtra	15154480	3811996	18966476	25
Puducherry	177642	45,919	223561	26
Odisha	5098052	1350572	6448624	26
Karnataka	8599750	2305369	10905119	27
Dadra & Nagar Haveli	40,566	10,882	51,448	27
Uttar Pradesh	11134848	3006688	14141536	27
Goa	320771	88,926	409697	28
Daman & Diu	42,516	11,940	54,456	28
Nagaland	177837	50,247	228084	28
Assam	2499093	714213	3213306	29
Delhi	3277102	966756	4243858	30
Kerala	6227392	1927844	8155236	31
Lakshadweep	20,519	6,448	26,967	31
Gujarat	10860213	3715416	14575629	34
Sikkim	164479	57,477	221956	35
Chandigarh	195168	69,769	264937	36
Arunachal Pradesh	212634	76,499	289133	36
Uttarakhand	1841778	666114	2507892	36
Tamil Nadu	4937244	1801679	6738923	36
Andhra Pradesh	5330276	2043245	7373521	38
West Bengal	8799321	3514495	12313816	40
Ladakh	84,923	37,003	121926	44
Tripura	936558	498748	1435306	53
Miscellaneous	1697480	1391984	3089464	82

Source: Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), data as of 7 a.m., May 13, 2021

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