Music and audio visual film at Red Fort to celebrate One Billion Covid – 19 vaccinations

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New Delhi: Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya will launch a song and an audio visual film at the Red Fort in Delhi around noon to on Thursday to celebrate the landmark milestone. According to the Health Ministry sources India is set to administer one billion Covid – 19 vaccine doses by early today, an important milestone after a slow start, even as a recent drop in inoculations worries the government and healthcare providers.

The country has already injected 998.5 million doses, nearly 90 per cent of them the AstraZeneca vaccine produced locally by the Serum Institute of India. The Minister in his tweet said that I appeal to all unvaccinated Indians to quickly get their shots and contribute to our historic golden vaccination journey.

The government wants all of India’s 944 million adults to get vaccinated this year. As of now 75% of them have got at least one dose and 31% have had two. India has so far reported 34.1 million Covid – 19 cases and more than 452,000 deaths, most during a second wave of infections of the Delta variant that surged through the country between April and May.

Despite the current low number of infections, Health Ministry have been urging people to get vaccinated fast, especially as the ongoing festival season means family gatherings and mass shopping, raising the risk of a new wave of infections.

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