Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Monday said vaccination will be absolutely free in entire Bihar. “Such facility will be made available even at private hospitals, and will be facilitated by the state government,” add Kumar, who took the first dose of Covid-19 vaccine as the country opened up the facility for people over 60 years of age and those above 45 with co-morbidities as beneficiaries.

Kickstarting the second phase of the immunisation programme, Prime Minister Narendra Modi too received his first dose of coronavirus vaccine (COVAXIN by Bharat Biotech) at All India Institutes of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Delhi.

In the first phase, 1.43 crore doses of Covishield and Covaxin vaccines were administered to two priority groups: healthcare and frontline workers. While the second phase of vaccination comes at a time when India’s active Covid cases are under control, eight states — Kerala, Maharashtra, Punjab, Gujarat, Chhattisgarh, West Bengal, Jammu & Kashmir and Madhya Pradesh — have been a cause of concern, reporting an uptick in daily cases in the last two weeks.

In the last 24 hours, 15,510 new cases of coronavirus were detected with 8,293 –– which is more than half of the total –– being reported in Maharashtra. Kerala reported 3,254 cases while Punjab recorded 579 infections. A total of 106 fatalities were reported on Sunday, taking the death toll to over 1.57 lakh. More than 1.68 cases are active now, a level that was last seen at the end of January.

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