New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi said administer of Covid – 19 vaccines on Monday is a record break and it is gladdening incident.

Modi in his twitter said that the vaccine remains our strongest weapon to fight Covid – 19, congratulations to those who got vaccinated and kudos to all the front-line warriors working hard to ensure so many citizens got the vaccine. Well done India!

जन सहभागिता के माध्यम से भारत कोरोना महामारी के खिलाफ लड़ाई को मजबूती देने के लिए कृतसंकल्प है। pic.twitter.com/5t7jMjZwH7

— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) June 21, 2021

More than 80 lakh Covid – 19 vaccine doses were administered across the country in the last 24 hours, the highest single day coverage till now, on day one of Centre’s new vaccination policy roll-out. According to the Government’s official website CoWIN showed a total of 8,096,417 people have been vaccinated till 8:30pm on Monday.

The Centre started providing vaccines free of charge to all above 18 from today and took back control of vaccination from states.. The last time India’s single-day vaccine coverage was the highest was on April 2 when 42, 65, 157 doses were administered.