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(CNN) India has been gripped by a life or death race against Covid-19, as the country of nearly 1.4 billion people rolls out one of the fastest vaccination drives in the world while recording all-time high tallies of infections.
The country reported a record-high daily total of almost 153,000 coronavirus cases Sunday with 839 new deaths, according to health ministry figures. India s total caseload stands at more than 13.5 million second only to the United States and Brazil including nearly 170,000 fatalities.
On the same day, vaccinations topped 100 million, with India being the fastest country globally to reach that milestone, reaching the figure in just 85 days, said the health ministry.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday asked people to vaccinate themselves against Covid-19, making the appeal after taking his second shot against the disease. News agency ANI tweeted a photo of Modi taking the vaccine at Delhi s All India Institute of Medical Sciences over a month after he received his first shot. Got my second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at AIIMS today.
Vaccination is among the few ways we have to defeat the virus. If you are eligible for the vaccine, get your shot soon, Modi tweeted and shared a link to the CoWin website, a portal to register for the vaccine.