Shot-free versions are being explored as a strategy to improve protection against COVID-19 infection, with a particular interest in nasal vaccines designed to fend off the virus right where it enters the body.
Taking to Twitter, the union health minister Mansukh Mandaviya congratulated PM Modi for the feat. He wrote: “What an extraordinary feat! With PM @NarendraModi Ji's mantra of Sabka Saath, Sabka Prayas, India achieves complete vaccination of 90% of its adult population.
Biological E. Limited plans to complete production at a rate of 75 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine Corbevax per month, anticipating over 100 million doses per month from February 2022.
The central government has said that 71 per cent of the country's adult population have received at least one dose of Covid-19 vaccine and 27 per cent have got both doses.
Over 88.14 crore COVID-19 vaccine doses have been provided to states and Union Territories so far through the Centre's free-of-cost channel and direct state procurement category, the Union health ministry said today.