India Achieves Milestone Of 100 Cr Covid Vaccination. PM Modi Visits RML Hospital, Congratulates Frontline Workers

<p><strong>New Delhi: </strong>India has successfully administered one billion COVID-19 vaccine doses on Thursday. To mark the occasion, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya will launch a song and audio-visual film at Red Ford at 12:30 PM today.</p> <p>According to the ANI report, Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital as India crosses 100 crore covid-19 vaccination jabs.</p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">Congratulations India! We are 100 Crores strong against <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/COVID19?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#COVID19</a> ! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/VaccineCentury?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#VaccineCentury</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/COVIDGroundZero?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#COVIDGroundZero</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TyoharonKeRangCABKeSang?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TyoharonKeRangCABKeSang</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/PMOIndia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PMOIndia</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/mansukhmandviya?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@mansukhmandviya</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/ianuragthakur?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ianuragthakur</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/DrBharatippawar?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DrBharatippawar</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/PIB_India?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PIB_India</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/mygovindia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@mygovindia</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/COVIDNewsByMIB?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@COVIDNewsByMIB</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/ICMRDELHI?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ICMRDELHI</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/DDNewslive?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DDNewslive</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/airnewsalerts?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@airnewsalerts</a> <a href="https://t.co/YvmnMGafIO">pic.twitter.com/YvmnMGafIO</a></p> &mdash; Ministry of Health (@MoHFW_INDIA) <a href="https://twitter.com/MoHFW_INDIA/status/1451041051372752896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 21, 2021</a></blockquote> <p> <script src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" async="" charset="utf-8"></script> </p> <p>O<span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">n Wednesday, Union Health Minister Dr Mandaviya on his official Twitter handle appealed to the people who are still to be vaccinated to get the covid-19 vaccine dose immediately. </span></p> <p><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">"The country is close to making a vaccine century. To be a part of this golden opportunity, I appeal to the countrymen that those who are yet to be vaccinated, by getting vaccinated immediately, contribute to this historic golden vaccination journey of India," he said. </span></p> <p>Earlier till Wednesday, India had administered &nbsp;998.5 million doses of the covid-19 vaccines, and around 90% of them are the AstraZeneca vaccine produced locally by the Serum Institute of India, reported Reuters.</p> <p><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">Union government wants that all of India's adult population to get a covid-19 vaccine done by this year. However, currently, around 75% of them have at least got one dose of the covid-19 vaccine while nearly 31% have received both doses.</span></p> <p><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">India continues to report less than 15000 Coronavirus COVID-19 cases and 19,446 recoveries in the last 24 hrs as per Union Health Ministry.</span></p> <p><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">So far, India has registered a total of 3,41,08,996 covid-19 cases, out of which, 3,34,78,247 are recovered, and 1,78,098 are active cases. As many as 99,12,82,283 vaccinations have been administered till now. </span></p>

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