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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.

































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