New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday (June 4, 2021) chaired a high-level meeting to review the progress of India’s COVID-19 vaccination drive and directed officers to convey down vaccine wastage.
The Prime Minister said that the coronavirus vaccine wastage numbers are nonetheless on the upper facet within the nation and that steps must be taken to convey them down.
As of Friday night, India has administered over 22.75 crore vaccines together with wastages.
During the meeting attended by a number of Union Ministers together with Rajnath Singh, Amit Shah and Nirmala Sitharaman, officers briefed PM Modi concerning the present availability of vaccines and the roadmap for ramping it up. The PM was additionally apprised concerning the efforts undertaken to assist numerous vaccine producers ramp up the manufacturing of vaccines.
They additionally instructed the Prime Minister of assorted measures being taken on the tech entrance to make the method of vaccination extra people-friendly.
Officials knowledgeable PM Modi on advance visibility being offered to states on vaccine availability and stated that states have been requested to cross on this data to the district degree in order that there isn’t a inconvenience to folks.
Meanwhile, India’s lively coronavirus caseload has additional declined to 16,35,993 on Friday. The nation noticed over 1.32 lakh new infections between Thursday and Friday morning.
India’s COVID-19 depend now stands at 2,85,74,350, of which, 3,40,702 folks have succumbed to the virus. On the opposite hand, India’s nationwide restoration fee has now elevated to 93.08%.
