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India Suffers Vaccine Shortages As Virus Surges By Ammu KANNAMPILLY
04/08/21 AT 5:23 AM
More than 700 million people across India were facing coronavirus vaccine shortages Thursday, local media reported, as infection numbers hit yet another daily record.
Case numbers had eased in India but a second wave of the virus has since returned with a vengeance, with more than 126,000 new infections recorded in the past 24 hours, a new record.
Several regions have tightened curbs on activity while Maharashtra, the current epicentre of India s epidemic and home to megacity Mumbai, is set to enter a lockdown at the weekend.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi received his second shot on Thursday, tweeting that vaccines are among the few ways we have to defeat the virus . He urged others to follow his lead by getting vaccinated.
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Updated April 8, 2021
People stand in a queue at a Covid-19 vaccination centre amidst rising Covid-19 coronavirus cases, in Mumbai on April 8, 2021.
INDRANIL MUKHERJEE / AFP
More than 700 million people across India were facing coronavirus vaccine shortages Thursday, local media reported, as infection numbers hit yet another daily record.
Case numbers had eased in India but a second wave of the virus has since returned with a vengeance, with more than 126,000 new infections recorded in the past 24 hours, a new record.
Several regions have tightened curbs on activity while Maharashtra, the current epicentre of India’s epidemic and home to megacity Mumbai, is set to enter a lockdown at the weekend.
Modi gets second vaccine dose as India hits record daily coronavirus cases
4 hours ago Prime Minister Narendra Modi receives the second dose of the Covaxin vaccine at AIIMS hospital in New Delhi on Thursday. AFP
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi received his second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine as the country hit another peak on Thursday with 126,789 new cases reported in the past 24 hours. Vaccination is among the few ways we have to defeat the virus. If you are eligible for the vaccine, get your shot soon,” Modi tweeted. He received his first vaccine shot on March 1.
India started its vaccination drive in January. So far, more than 90 million health workers and Indians older than 45 have received at least one shot. Only 11 million of them have received both doses as India tries to build immunity to protect its nearly 1.4 billion people.
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