India reaches another milestone with eight states/union territories reporting no deaths from coronavirus in the last 24 hours. Te Centre has so far provided more than 15 crore vaccine doses to States/Union Territories free of cost. As a sign of relief in this such heartbreaking situation of India, eight states/UTs have not reported any COVID-related fatalities.
These ones who didn’t recorded any fatalities are Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu; Ladakh (UT), Tripura, Lakshadweep, Mizoram, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh and Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The government of India has so far provided more than 15 crore vaccine doses to states/UTs free of cost. Of this, the total consumption including wastages is 14,64,78,983 doses. The Union Health Ministry informed, "More than 1 crore doses are still available with the states/UTs to be administered. More than 80 Lakh doses will be received in addition by the states/UTs in the next 3 days. Also, ten states including Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Karnataka, Kerala, Chhattisgarh, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat and Rajasthan report 71.68 per cent of the new cases.
Union Minister Harsh Vardhan today said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had launched the largest vaccination drive in the world in January, 2021 which is now being accelerated further as the vaccination of young people is about to begin from May 1. He also said that in 2021, the country is better prepared mentally and physically with more experience to beat the pandemic as compared to 2020.
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