Quad countries pledge to donate 1.2 crore vaccine doses globally
World | Sep 25, 2021, 10:23 AM ISTQuad will ensure expanded vaccine manufacturing India is exported for the Indo-Pacific and the world, the summit statement said.
Quad will ensure expanded vaccine manufacturing India is exported for the Indo-Pacific and the world, the summit statement said.
In his opening remarks at the Quad summit, Prime Minister Modi said that that the Quad vaccine initiative will help Indo-Pacific nations as the world is battling with COVID-19.
The United States and its international partners are working quickly to scale up vaccine manufacturing in other countries around the world so they can manufacture as well, Biden said in his virtual address to the Global Summit to End COVID-19.
According to the 7 pm provisional report, more than 68 lakh (68,26,132) vaccine doses were administered on Tuesday.
Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Monday announced that the government will receive over 30 crore doses of COVID-19 vaccines in October and over 100 crore in the next three months.
Out of 81,73,95,763 doses administered so far, 64.8 per cent eligible population received the first dose of COVID-19 vaccination and 22.2 per cent received the second dose.
The BJP leader has now accused the health department of negligence and has filed a complaint following which, the officials said, a probe has been launched.
The ministry said over 5.16 cr balance and unutilised vaccine doses are still available with the states and UTs to be administered.
She said after that incident, health officials called her a few times to find out how she has been, and she told them she was perfectly fine.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and several state governments have aimed to make Prime Minister Narendra Modi's birthday historic by setting a record number of Covid vaccinations today.
India took 85 days to touch the 10-crore vaccination mark, 45 more days to cross the 20-crore mark and 29 more days to reach the 30 crore.
Amid talks of a third shot of the Covid-19 vaccine, the government on Thursday said that booster doses were not the "central theme" in scientific and public healthcare discussions at the moment.
PM Modi will congratulate them on 100 pc completion of 1st vaccination dose, CM Pramod Sawant said on Wednesday.
CDSCO in July had refused to grant emergency-use authorisation to Sputnik-Light, ruling out the need for the conduct of the phase III trial of the Russian vaccine in the country.
The country has crossed the figure of 75 crore vaccination doses in the 75th year of Independence, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said on Monday as he shared the feat on Twitter.
Around 50,25,159 vaccine doses have been administered till 8 pm on Sunday, according to data from the CoWIN portal.
Goa CM Pramod Sawant thanked the people of Goa for their support in making the vaccination drive a huge success.
Addressing a press conference, Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan said India is still going through the second wave of COVID-19 and it is not over yet.
The ministry said over 5.58 cr balance and unutilised COVID vaccine doses are still available with states, UTs to be administered.
The development came following the announcement that Panacea Biotec supplied the first shipment of the second component of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine manufactured by it for sale in India.
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