New Delhi: The Centre today, April 1, 2021 informed that COVID-19 vaccination will now be done on all days of April, including gazetted holidays at all public and private hospitals. 

The Centre has also written to all states and Union territories and asked them to make necessary arrangements to provide COVID-19 vaccination in these COVID Vaccination Centres on all days of the month including gazetted holidays during April 2021. The announcement comes on a day when people above 45 years of age have been allowed to take the COVID-19 vaccine jabs. 

The decision was taken after detailed deliberations with the states/UTs to optimally utilize all COVID Vaccination Centres across the public and private sectors to ensure a rapid increase in the pace and coverage of COVID vaccination. 

Meanwhile, more than 6.5 crore vaccine doses have been administered through 10,86,241 sessions, as per the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare's provisional report till 7 am on Thursday. 

India's COVID-19 caseload, on the other hand, has also been seeing a massive spike in the past few days. On Thursday, the country's COVID-19 count was increased by 72,330 to 1,22,21,665, the biggest single-day spurt since October 2020. 

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