COVID vaccination: 48 districts across India see first dose coverage below 50%

Eight months after India started opening the COVID-19 vaccination drive for its common citizens, there are still 48 districts across the country where the coverage of the first dose is below 50 percent.

CNBC-TV18's Archana Shukla reports that these 48 districts are largely spread across Jharkhand, north east and Maharashtra.

Nine districts of Jharkhand, 28 districts of the northeast and 6 districts of Maharashtra have lower than 50 percent vaccination coverage. Out of the 28 districts in north dast, 7 districts have vaccination coverage of lower than 25 percent.