India is fastest country to administer 100 million vaccine shots to fight Covid-19

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India has become the fastest country in the world to administer 100 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine, achieving the feat in 85 days to surpass the 89-day record of the USA. China had taken 102 days to reach the 100 million vaccinations mark. </p>
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The Prime Minister Office tweeted : “Strengthening the efforts to ensure a healthy and COVID-19 free India” along with the statistics. </p>
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The total number of COVID-19 vaccine doses administered in the country stood at 10,12,84,282  at the end of Saturday. As many as 2.9 million vaccine doses were administered on Saturday.</p>
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The extension of vaccine coverage to all those above 45 years along with the recent provisions for them to get vaccinated at their workplaces (government and private) form a series of pro-active and coordinated steps taken by the Centre and the State governments to facilitate the vaccinations.</p>
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India also has the lowest COVID-19 fatality rate in the world at 1.28%)</p>