‘Tika Utsav’ draws moderate response; 11.4 mn doses given
The Hindu
The 4-day drive was organised to accelerate vaccination
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s exhortation to Indians to commemorate ‘Tika Utsav’ by encouraging COVID-19 vaccination has elicited a middling response with only 11.4 million vaccines administered from April 11 to 14, data from the CoWin website show. Concomitant with a slew of festivals that mark these days, the aim was to accelerate vaccinations. When compared over previous blocks of four days all through this month, there were three blocks when inoculations crossed 13 million. The lowest was from March 18-21 that saw 9.5 million vaccinations. The CoWin website indicates daily vaccination number for the previous 30 days. Beyond that the numbers are available only on a weekly basis.More Related News
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