- Friday, April 19, 2024
By: Shubham Ghosh
INDIA reached a special milestone on Friday (17) by administering 20 million Covid-19 vaccine jabs till evening. It was a new record as the country gave these many vaccines on a single day and it came on a day when prime minister Narendra Modi turned 71.
Indian health minister Manuskh Mandaviya thanked the country’s health workers for making the country’s mega vaccine drive, which started on January 16, a resounding success.
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He also met the health workers at Safdarjung Hospital in Delhi on the occasion of giving 20 million vaccine doses in a single day to thank them. “Thanks to all health workers. Well done India!” he said. More than 22 million vaccines were given on Friday at the time of writing this report. In June, China inoculated 24.7 million people on a single day.
Thank you all Health Workers.
Well Done India! 😊 pic.twitter.com/l7K7R9ZEtm
— Mansukh Mandaviya (@mansukhmandviya) September 17, 2021
States ruled by Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party like Assam, Karnataka, Bihar and Gujarat planned mega vaccination drives on Friday to commemorate the prime minister’s birthday in a special way.
News agency Asian News International had earlier quoted official sources as saying that the “central government is aiming for a record two crore COVID-19 vaccinations on PM Modi’s birthday. The union health minister is taking updates of vaccination doses across the country.”
India has so far administered 790 million doses of the vaccine, of which 594 million are first doses.
