New Delhi: India has achieved another milestone in its ongoing Covid-19 vaccination drive by overtaking the US in terms of total number of doses administered so far, securing highest position among top six countries of the world.
India has so far administered Covid vaccine doses to 32,36,63,297 people (323.66 million) while the number of people inoculated so far in the US are 32,33,27,328. If compared to the timeline, India’s Covid vaccination drive started on January 16 this year almost one month after the similar exercise was started by the US on December 14 last year.
India’s cumulative vaccination coverage has exceeded 32.36 crores (320 million) on Sunday. A total of 32,36,63,297 vaccine doses have been administered through 43,21,898 sessions, said the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) citing provisional report received till 7am on Monday. The Ministry said that 17,21,268 vaccine doses were administered in the last 24 hours.
As per global vaccine tracker report till 8am on Monday, India is at top position in terms of inoculating maximum Covid vaccines to its citizens followed by the US, the UK (7,67,74,990), Germany (7,14,37,514), France (5,24,57,288), and Italy (4,96,50,721).
Interestingly, India achieved the goal quicker despite it started the world’s largest inoculation drive one month later compared to these five countries. The drive first started by the UK on December 8 last year followed by the US while Germany, France and Italy started the exercise on December 27 last year.
The government said that the new phase of universalisation of Covid-19 vaccination commenced from June 21, accelerated the pace and expanded the scope of vaccination throughout the country.
Following the landmark achievement, Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated all those who are driving the momentum of India’s vaccination drive.
In a tweet, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said: “India’s vaccination drive keeps gaining momentum! Congrats to all those who are driving this effort. Our commitment remains, vaccines for all, free for all.”
India’s federal Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan on Monday described the milestone as ‘historic’. “Till now, India has administered 32,36,63,297 doses of COVID-19 vaccines. This is historic because today we have overtaken the USA in the number of vaccine doses administered,” he said.
In a tweet, the health minister also called the new feat a ‘remarkable result of efforts under the leadership of Prime Minister Modi.’
“World’s #LargestVaccineDrive pacing ahead! At 32.36 crore, surpasses in terms of cumulative #COVID19Vaccince doses administered. A remarkable result of efforts by ‘Whole of Govt’ & ‘Whole of society’ under leadership of Hon’ble PM Sh @narendramodi Ji,” he tweeted. He further informed that fresh COVID-19 cases were continuously decreasing and in the last seven days had reported a 21 per cent drop.
“Continuing reduction in infections! Corona infection is continuously decreasing in India. There has been a decrease of 21 per cent of new patients in the country in 7 days as compared to last week. This is a good sign, but be careful, be cautious and follow the COVID protocol,” he said.
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