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WORLD LEADERS SHOWER
PRAISE ON INDIA AFTER BECOMING SELF-RELIANT IN
Several countries, from Maldives to Sri Lanka VACCINATION, NOW INDIA ASSUMES
and America to Israel, congratulated India THE NEW ROLE AS THE WORLD'S
on its historic achievement. WHO Director-
General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, LARGEST VACCINE MANUFACTURER
“India achieved the goal of vaccine equity
targets by protecting its vulnerable population
from the virus.” Congratulating Prime and entrepreneurs for rising to the occasion. It
Minister Narendra Modi for India’s successful is due to their talent and hard work that India is
vaccination campaign, Israel’s Prime Minister truly Aatmanirbhar when it comes to vaccines.
Naftali Bennett said: “These life saving In a country of the scale of India, it is not
vaccines will help us win the ongoing war enough to just produce. Focus has to be on
against the Corona pandemic.” The US said, last mile delivery and seamless logistics. To
"This is a historic victory of India's collective understand the challenges involved, imagine
effort. It has played a big role in winning the the journey taken by one vial of vaccines. From
battle against Corona.” a plant in Pune or Hyderabad, the vial is sent
to a hub in any of the states, from where it is
LOWEST EVER CASES AFTER 248 DAYS, transported to the district hub.
From there, it reaches a vaccination centre.
VACCINATION CROSSES 106 CRORES MARK This entails the deployment of thousands
On November 1, 12,514 new cases of Covid were of trips taken by flights and trains. During
registered. The recovery rate of Corona patients this entire journey, the temperature has to
has reached 98.20%. At the same time, the total be maintained in a particular range which
vaccine dose has crossed the 106 crores milestone is centrally monitored. For this, over 1 lakh
till November 1. The total number of active cases cold-chain equipment were utilized. States
in India is 1,58,817, which is the lowest in the last were given advance notice of the delivery
248 days. At the same time, more than 60.92 crore schedule of the vaccines so that they could
(60,92,01,294) samples have been tested for COVID plan their drives better and vaccines reached
so far. them on the pre-decided days. This has been
an unprecedented effort in the history of
COVERAGE EXCEEDS 106.31 CRORES a robust tech platform in CoWIN. It ensured
INDIA'S VACCINATION independent India.
All these efforts were complemented by
At present, the Active cases presently that the vaccine drive was equitable, scalable,
current rate of constitute 0.46 per cent of the trackable, and transparent. It also ensured
recovery from Covid country's total positive cases, that a poor worker could take the first dose in
in India is 98.20%. the lowest since March 2020. his village and the second dose of the same
vaccine in the city where he works, after the
required time interval.”
If India is setting new records in vaccinations,
it is because of the continuous efforts being
made to strengthen the health infrastructure in
the country. Now India is aiming to develop a
modern health infrastructure to deal with any
such epidemic.
FIGURES : AS ON NOVEMBER 1, 2021
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