India s COVID-19 inoculation drive will be one of the biggest and fastest in the world. Here s how they are doing it
By South Asia correspondent James Oaten and Som Patidar
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India has started what authorities claim is the world s fastest and largest inoculation drive, with 191,000 healthcare workers receiving a dose of a COVID-19 vaccine on Saturday.
The Government s first phase of an ambitious vaccination program will target 30 million people, starting with healthcare and frontline workers before it is expanded to people aged above 50 and those suffering from comorbidities.
More than 7.5 crore Indians contracted Covid-19 in 2020, according to experts
Officially, India had 1 crore laboratory-confirmed cases of Covid-19. Representational image. | Xavier Galiana/AFP
With the Covid-19 pandemic
messaging from the government that the country seems to have seen
lower mortality from Covid-19 compared to other countries, it might be time to examine how Covid-19 stacked up against other deadly infectious diseases in India.
By the end of 2020, India officially had just over 1 crore laboratory-confirmed cases of Covid-19, nearly twice as many as cases of typhoid, tuberculosis, malaria and pneumonia in 2018 put together, according to government data. Further, there were more Covid-19 infections in India in 2020 than from most other communicable diseases in a normal year, our analysis of the Global Burden of Disease estimates showed. While India seems to have seen lower Covid-19 mortality, deaths from the disease in India dwarfed those fr
More Indians Got COVID In 2020 Than Any Other Infectious Disease In Previous Years indiaspend.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from indiaspend.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Read more about 10 mn cases in 2020: More Indians got Covid-19 than any infectious disease on Business Standard. By the end of 2020, India officially had just over 10 million laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19, nearly twice as many as cases of typhoid, tuberculosis, malaria and pneumonia in 2018
Covid-19: Is India moving towards herd immunity?
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As there has been a consistent decline in the fresh cases of covid-19 in India, public health experts have said that there is a possibility that the country is moving towards herd immunity for the highly infectious disease.
According to the union health ministry, at least 12,584 daily new cases were added to the national tally in the last 24 hours after nearly seven months. The daily new cases were 12,881 on 18th June, 2020.
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