‘No Covid related deaths in 251 districts in last 3 weeks’: Health Ministry

47 districts have not reported new Covid-19 cases and 251 districts have not reported any Covid-19-related deaths in the last three weeks, said Union Health Ministry. Addressing a press conference, Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan said this was possible due to the joint collaborative effort of Central government, state governments and UT administrations. Bhushan said, “While carrying out immunization of health care and frontline workers across the country, we are using 1239 private as vaccination session sites. At the same time, we are using 5912 public hospitals as vaccination sites.” He further said that private sector will be involved in a larger extent. Watch the full video for more.