COVID19 Vaccination
India's COVID-19 vaccination programme is one of the most successful: Centre
New Delhi: The Centre on Monday said India's COVID-19 vaccination programme has been one of the most successful.
"In the fight against global pandemic COVID-19, India’s national COVID-19 Vaccination programme has been one of the most successful and largest vaccination programmes compared with the many developed western nations with significantly low population base to vaccinate," the Centre said in a statement.
"Since the start of the National COVID vaccination drive on 16th January, 2021 India has administered over 90% of 1st dose and 65% of 2nd dose to its eligible citizens," read the statement.
"In the drive, India has achieved several milestones unprecedented in the world, including administering over 100 crore doses in less the 9 months, administering 2.51 crore doses in a single day and administering 1 crore doses per day on several occasions," the statement said.
India is witnessing a spike in COVID-19 cases in recent days.
In a worrying situation, India registered 27,553 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, the Union Health Ministry said in a statement on Sunday.
About 284 people died due to the virus during the same period, the data showed.
So far, a total of 1,525 people in India have contracted the Omicron variant since the first case was detected in November, data from the ministry said.
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