India needs 93 lakh COVID-19 vaccinations per day to achieve herd immunity by Sept: FinMin
The ministry says as per India s demographic distribution, 86.5 crore people or 63.1 per cent of the population is above 18 years of age. Assuming herd immunity at 80 per cent, the target population to be vaccinated is 70 crore, it adds
BusinessToday.In | June 9, 2021 | Updated 22:06 IST
To avoid or lower the ferocity of subsequent waves, an accelerated vaccination drive is imperative, says the finance ministry
The finance ministry, in its latest monthly economic review for May, has said the momentum of economic recovery has been moderated by the ravaging second wave of COVID-19. Unlike the first wave, the effect of the second wave has been asynchronous in its onset across states and wider in its spread as the second wave also entered the rural hinterland, the report said.
While, the 30-share BSE index reclaimed the 50,000-level, the NSE surged 1.14 per cent
Market benchmark Sensex rallied over 600 points in early trade on Thursday, April 29, 2021, driven by gains in index majors Reliance Industries, HDFC twins and Infosys amid a positive trend in Asian equities.
The 30-share BSE index reclaimed the 50,000-level and was trading 606.19 points or 1.22 per cent higher at 50,340.03 in initial deals.
Similarly, the broader NSE Nifty surged 169.30 points or 1.14 per cent to 15,033.85.
IndusInd Bank was the top gainer in the Sensex pack, rising around 3 per cent, followed by Axis Bank, Bajaj Finance, Bajaj Finserv, ONGC, Kotak Bank and Reliance Industries.
“We recently liberalised geospatial data. If we could have done this 10 years back, it is likely that Google would have been made in India, not outside. The talent is Indian but the product is not,” he said at the sixth meeting of the Governing Council of NITI Aayog.
A Bench headed by the environment watchdog’s Chairperson, Justice A.K. Goel, said it
prima facie agreed that OIL failed to take safety precautions and there was need for ensuring such incidents do not recur.
Updated Jan 22, 2021 | 16:41 IST
Given the complex nature of vaccine hesitancy, it is India s prerogative to ally its vaccination programme with robust awareness and confidence-building exercises aimed at building trust in India s vaccines. A healthcare worker administers a dose of the Covishield vaccine to NITI Aayog member VK Paul, at AIIMS in New Delhi. | Photo Credit: PTI
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The reported 631,417 jabs that had been administered as of Tuesday evening – far less than the government s stated objective – more than hinted at a telling undercurrent of vaccine hesitancy
While India isn t the only country in the world that has to contend with vaccine hesitancy, the religious and political matrices in a nation as diverse as ours make the task much more challenging