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India’s current Covid-19 vaccine production capacity is insufficient to meet its target of administering five million doses per day, an expert panel underlined on Wednesday, shedding light on shortages flagged by states but denied by the Union health ministry.
A 22-member India Task Force has cautioned that monthly vaccine supplies for the inoculation campaign at the current production capacity of 70 to 80 million doses per month would “fall short by half” for the target of 150 million doses per month.
“It is critical to ramp up production capacity,” the task force a group of public health experts, senior government administrators and academic researchers assigned to propose options to address India’s second Covid-19 wave has said in a report.
Jeffrey Gettleman, Suhasini Raj and Sameer Yasir, The New York Times
Published: 15 Apr 2021 10:28 AM BdST
Updated: 15 Apr 2021 10:28 AM BdST Shuttered stores in Mumbai, India, on Sunday, April 11, 2021. Cities in India are once again locking down to fight COVID-19 - and workers are once again pouring out and heading back home to rural areas, which health experts fear could accelerate the spread of the coronavirus and devastate poorly equipped villages, as it did last time. (Atul Loke/The New York Times)
As dawn broke over Mumbai, India, on Wednesday, Kaleem Ansari sat among a crowd of thousands outside the central rail station waiting for his train to pull in. Ansari, a factory worker, carried old clothes in his backpack and 200 rupees not quite $3 in his pocket.
India reports a record of more than 200,000 new COVID-19 cases in a single day
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India reported more than 200,000 COVID-19 new cases in a single day Thursday, more than doubling its previous record as the nation experiences a second wave of infections. File Photo by Sanjeev Gupta/EPA-EFE
April 15 (UPI) India reported 200,000 new COVID-19 cases and more than 1,000 deaths Thursday amid a second surge in the virus.
The nation has reported more than 1.9 million new cases and 10,600 deaths since the beginning of this month, including 652,000 infections between April 1 and April 7, according to tallies by CNBC.
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Thursday s increase was the highest daily number of new cases since the start of the pandemic and more than double the previous record in 2020.
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