Many countries have already started their vaccination drive against corona. Colombia is also set to kick start its vaccination drive as the first batch of coronavirus vaccine has arrived in Colombia, now the country can start a vaccination campaign.

 In a statement, the country's Ministry of Health said, "President Ivan Duque... is meeting the first batch of the COVID-19 vaccine, which will make it possible to start a national vaccination plan in the country."

The first batch consists of 50,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine. A total of 1,650,000 doses will be supplied within three weeks. Earlier, Duque said that during talks with pharmaceutical companies and with the Covax mechanism, it had been possible to agree on the receipt of 61.5 million doses for vaccination in 2021 for 32,250,000 Colombians.

Meanwhile, 176 million doses have been administered across 78 countries, according to data collected by Bloomberg. The latest rate was roughly 5.99 million doses a day.

India's tally of COVID-19 cases rose to 1,09,16,589 with 11,649 new infections being reported in a day, while the daily deaths were recorded below 100 for the ninth time this month, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Monday. The death toll increased to 1,55,732 with 90 daily new fatalities.

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