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Govt to increase Covid vaccination sites by up to 5 times amid coverage concerns
India s COVID-19 cases rose by 9,121 in the past 24 hours, taking the total to 10.93 million. Deaths rose by 81 to 155,813.
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, Reuters We are currently running 10,000-11,000 immunisation sessions. We will do four to five times of that when we start the next phase; wait for the pace to pick up, said Vinod Kumar Paul, who heads a government panel on vaccine strategy
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India will increase the number of its COVID-19 vaccination sites by up to five times after administering nearly 9 million shots in a month, a government official said on Tuesday, amid concerns about the speed of coverage in the country.
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Shyamala Gopalan was a pioneering woman of colour in America, a scientist and an activist. She was also Vice-President Kamala Harris s mother and her greatest influence . Geeta Pandey in Delhi and Vineet Khare in Washington DC look at her life.
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