New Delhi: India’s Covid-19 vaccination drive helped in saving greater than 34 lakh lives and prevented a lack of USD 18.3 billion, a report by Stanford University mentioned. The working paper by Stanford University and Institute for (*34*) titled ‘Healing the Economy: Estimating the Economic Impact on India’s Vaccination and Related Issues’, which was launched by Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Friday (February 24, 2023), additionally highlighted the impression of the Covid-19 lockdown and referred to the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare’s statistical evaluation that the Covid-19 tally may have reached about two lakh (0.2 million) with out lockdown by April 11, 2020. Due to lockdown measures, the precise infections solely went as much as about 7,500 by April 11, 2020. The imposition of the lockdown additionally averted two million deaths, it mentioned.
The report acknowledged that strong measures on the floor stage, like contact tracing, mass testing, house quarantine, distribution of important medical gear, revamping healthcare infrastructure and fixed coordination amongst stakeholders on the centre, state and district ranges not solely helped comprise the unfold of coronavirus but in addition in augmenting the well being infrastructure.
It mentioned that three cornerstones of India’s technique — containment, aid bundle and vaccine administration — have been important in saving lives and making certain financial exercise by containing the unfold of Covid-19, sustaining livelihoods and creating immunity in opposition to the virus.
The working paper additional mentioned that India was capable of save greater than 3.4 million lives by endeavor the nationwide vaccination marketing campaign at an unprecedented scale.
It mentioned the vaccination marketing campaign was all the time on saving lives.Â
The marketing campaign additionally yielded a optimistic financial impression by stopping the lack of USD 18.3 billion, it added.
A internet good thing about USD 15.42 billion occurred for the nation after taking into account the price of the vaccination marketing campaign, the report mentioned.
Mansukh Mandaviya hails PM Modi’s resolution of early Covid-19 lockdownÂ
Releasing the working paper, Mansukh Mandaviya mentioned that India adopted a ‘Whole of Government’ and ‘Whole of Society’ method, in a proactive, preemptive and graded method.Â
“Much before Covid-19 was declared a public health emergency by World Health Organization (WHO) in Jan 2020, processes and structures to focus dedicatedly on various facets of pandemic management were put in place. India under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi adopted a ‘Whole of Government’ & ‘Whole of Society’ approach in a proactive, preemptive and graded manner thus adopting a holistic response strategy, for effective management of Covid-19,” he mentioned.Â
Take a take a look at how varied initiatives of PM @NarendraModi Ji’s Govt throughout COVID-19 helped drastically in saving each lives & livelihoods.
According to a @Stanford report, COVID-19 vaccination prevented the lack of Rs 1.29 lakh crore in 2021 and saved lakhs of treasured lives. pic.twitter.com/vELrhe6x6V
— Dr Mansukh Mandaviya (@mansukhmandviya) February 24, 2023
Mandaviya credited a big a part of the success to the residents who cooperated with the federal government and different stakeholders within the struggle in opposition to Covid-19.Â
Hailing the choice of early Covid-19 lockdown by PM Modi as a major turning level, he alluded that it enabled the federal government to leverage neighborhood response in its five-pronged technique to fight Covid-19 specifically — Test, Track, Treat, Vaccination and Adherence — for implementing Covid Appropriate Behaviour (CAB) and delivering a speedy and strong institutional response.
