Photos: India administers record 8.6mn vaccine doses in a single day
The Centre launched a universal vaccination programme against Covid-19 on June 21 to provide states with free vaccines for the 18-45 category. On its first day, India administered close to 8.6 million vaccine doses against coronavirus disease (Covid-19), the country's highest single-day number recorded so far. India’s national Covid-19 immunisation drive began on January 16. For healthcare workers, and was later expanded to include all frontline workers on February 2, and then, everyone over the age of 60 years and people over the age of 45 with co-morbidities, on March 1. On April 1, it was expanded to include everyone over the age of 45.
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A health worker inoculates a man with a jab of Covid-19 vaccine at a vaccination Centre in New Delhi on June 21. According to the Union health ministry, India on June 21 administered close to 8.6 million vaccine doses against coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in a single day, which is the highest ever single-day number recorded in the country so far.(Money Sharma / AFP)
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Security personnel delivering boxes containing vials of Covishield vaccine, at a vaccination centre set up at Navyug School in New Delhi on June 21. A revised universal Covid-19 immunisation policy kicked in on June 21, wherein the Centre is procuring and supplying 75% of the total vaccine supplies being produced in India for free to states for immunising all adults.(Sumit Dayal / Bloomberg)
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Healthcare workers crossing Mundeswari river in a boat to inoculate villagers against Covid-19 during a door-to-door vaccination and testing drive at Uttar Batora Island in Howrah district, West Bengal on June 21. The Centre will now provide states with free vaccines for the 18-45 category, a move that is expected to help scale up daily vaccination numbers.(Rupak De Chowdhuri / REUTERS)
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Domestic help and daily wage workers in a long queue outside a vaccination centre at Government Middle school, in Fajilpur Jharsha, Gurugram on June 21. Until June 21, close to 300 million vaccine doses had been administered across the country since the national Covid-19 immunisation drive began in the country on January 16.(Parveen Kumar / HT Photo)
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