India Running 'Largest & Fastest' Vaccination Drive, To Have 257 Cr Covid Vaccine Doses By December: Nadda

While visiting a vaccination centre at the RML hospital in the national capital on Monday, Nadda said 130 crore people of the country have come forward to take vaccines on the call of PM Modi.

JP Nadda

New Delhi: With the aim to reach one crore daily vaccinations from August with the help of new vaccine policy, India has ramped up vaccine production. As India on Monday once again started its massive inoculation drive for all adults in the country, the Bharatiya Janata Party national president JP Nadda said that the country will have 257 crore Covid vaccine doses by December to take up double dose vaccination of people in full swing. 

While visiting a vaccination centre at the RML hospital in the national capital on Monday, Nadda said 130 crore people of the country have come forward to take vaccines on the call of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, despite the opposition trying to mislead them and create obstructions.

"Some leaders opposed vaccines saying they were not guinea pigs or mice. Those who doubted vaccines are now getting them. I want to ask such leaders if it was due to change in their mind, heart or soul," the BJP national president said.

Speaking to the media, Nadda praised party workers for helping people during the pandemic and said that while other parties went into quarantine or the ICU, the BJP workers risked their lives to provide relief to the people on the ground.

"BJP workers in all booths of the country were reaching out to people to ensure implementation of the prime minister's call for vaccination," Nadda said, as reported by news agency PTI. 

He went on to say that in India is running world's "largest and fastest" vaccination programme and within 9 months the country produced two indigenous vaccines against Covid under the leadership of Modi.

Meanwhile, the Union Health Ministry in its daily health bullein reported that India on the first day of new vaccine protocol crossed a landmark milestone with the highest-ever Covid-19 vaccine daily coverage by administering 78.75 lakh doses till 7 PM. 

(With inputs from PTI)