In January 2021, India started rolling out a historic Covid-19 vaccination drive. Since then, over 2.2 billion vaccine doses have been administered. India hit the astonishing figure of 2 billion doses in 18 months, making the effort truly unparalleled both in scale and speed. We also created a record of administering 25.1 million doses on a single day, and of administering more than 10 million doses on nine other days.
What is even more remarkable is that the entire vaccination programme was powered by two made-in-India vaccines. Over 97 per cent of the vaccines were provided free through the public
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