: Data shows India’s Covid-19 vaccination coverage has huge disparities among districts #IndiaNEWS Of the 10 districts with the lowest vaccination coverage in India, six are from Uttar Pradesh, shows

Data shows India’s Covid-19 vaccination coverage has huge disparities among districts #IndiaNEWS
Of the 10 districts with the lowest vaccination coverage in India, six are from Uttar Pradesh, shows an analysis of official data from the government’s CoWin platform by Scroll.in.The district with the worst vaccine coverage in the country is South Salmara-Mankachar. The western Assam district, bordering Bangladesh, has administered only 3.2 doses per 100 people.South Salmara-Mankachar is not the only Assam district to feature in the bottom ten. There is also Baksa, one of the four districts that make up the Bodoland Territorial Region. The six Uttar Pradesh districts at the bottom of the pile are Sambhal, Hardoi, Kannauj, Lakhimpur Kheri, Etah and Sant Kabir Nagar. Two north Tamil Nadu districts, Ranipet and Kallakurichi, complete the bottom ten. Conversely, as many as three districts from the North East are among the top ten performers in the country. Two of them are from Tripura, while the third is Assam’s Kamrup (Metro) district which houses Guwahati and capital Dispur. Puducherry’s Mahe boasts of the best coverage pan-India with 63 doses per 100 people. This includes both doses. In the metros Scroll.in’s analysis is based on vaccination data accessed on CoWin on June 3, 2021, and population estimates for 2020 prepared by Geographic Insights Dataverse, Harvard University.Among metro districts, South Delhi emerges as the...Read more

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