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Vaccine rollout continues
As of yesterday evening local time, 154,854,096 vaccine doses had been administered.
A total of 27,889,889 people had received their second doses equal to 2.1 per cent of India s population of 1.3 billion people, according to a health ministry news release.
This figure is significantly lower than the United States, where 29.8 per cent of the population are fully immunised.
India launched its vaccination drive on January 16, and expanded the program to everyone above the age of 18 from today.
However, a number of states are warning they have no shots to give.
A health worker wearing protective gear collects a nasal swab sample of an election counting agent to test for the COVID-19 at Siliguri college counting centre in Siliguri.(Diptendu Dutta/AFP/Getty Images)
Sheikh Saaliq, Krutika Pathi And Aniruddha Ghosal
A municipal official, right in blue, reprimands a restaurant owner, in white for not adhering to guidelines during a lockdown imposed due to rising number of COVID-19 cases in Bengaluru, India, Wednesday, April 28, 2021. As per the guidelines dine in is prohibited and only take aways are allowed. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi) April 28, 2021 - 5:43 PM
NEW DELHI - Three days after his coronavirus symptoms appeared, Rajendra Karan struggled to breathe. Instead of waiting for an ambulance, his son drove him to a government hospital in Lucknow, the capital of Indiaâs largest state.
But the hospital wouldnât let him in without a registration slip from the districtâs chief medical officer. By the time the son got it, his father had died in the car, just outside the hospital doors.
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Governance and technology in the Vaccine Economy - two tech leaders and a policymaker set out their stalls at the World Economic Forum s virtual gathering.
Benioff, Wojcicki, Balakrishnan
There s always a silver lining to a cloud and COVID-19 has been a catalyst, has been a stress test of our competence, capability, technology and social capital. It has also been a reminder that we do need more resilience, more sustainability and a better world. So, there are green shoots of hope.
An upbeat assessment from Vivian Balakrishnan, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister in Charge of the Smart Nation Initiative, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Singapore, on Day One of the World Economic Forum’s Global Technology Governance Summit, as he opened up the virtual gathering in the company of the CEOs of tech giants YouTube and Salesforce.
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