A health worker administers the Covishield vaccine, developed by AstraZeneca Plc. and the University of Oxford and manufactured by Serum Institute of India Ltd. (Photographer: T. Narayan/Bloomberg)
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Mar 18, 2021
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India has administered more than 3.7 crore vaccination shots since the immunisation drive began in January. Over 20 lakh beneficiaries were given the jab in the last 24 hours.
But that still accounts for about 7% of the country’s initial target of administering 500 million doses by July end, IndiaSpend reported. Authorities will need to give 3.65 million shots per day for the remaining 137 days to vaccinate 250 million people with two doses.
Serum Institute’s Adar Poonawalla has warned against vaccine nationalism in countries, including the U.S. and India. Governments holding tight to their supplies and restricting access to materials is likely to derail World Health Organization’s plan to deliver 2 billion doses to poorer and middle-income nations in 2021, he said.
