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Cover Story Sankalp Yatra of New India
LARGEST VACCINATION
CAMPAIGN
AGAINST COVID
13 CHRONOLOGY
When - 2020 till date
What- Instead of relying on other countries for
getting the Corona vaccine, India started the
world's largest free vaccination campaign by
developing its own COVID vaccine.
n In the midst of the Covid pandemic, a task force
was formed for developing an indigeneous
vaccine in April 2020. A provision of Rs 3500
crore was made in the budget for the research
and development of the vaccine.
n India started its vaccination campaign on 16
January 2021 with indigenous vaccines- Covaxin
and Covishield developed in just 8 months.
More than
212.50 n India has sent more than 25 crore vaccine
doses to the needy countries of the world under
Vaccine Maitri Programme.
crore vaccine doses have been administered n Today India has 5 Made in India COVID
till 31 August 2022 under nationwide covid Vaccines- Covaxin, Covishield, Corbevax,
vaccination campaign ZyCoV-D, and Genova.
24 New India Samachar September 16-30, 2022