Bill Gates congratulated India for achieving an "amazing milestone" of administering 10 million vaccine doses towards coronavirus disease (Covid-19) on Friday, as a result recording the highest single-day vaccine insurance so far. This, Gates stated, was the result of the collective efforts of the government, the studies and development (R&D) community, vaccine manufacturers, and all of the medical experts who made this feat possible.
"Congratulations, India, on achieving this amazing milestone," Gates wrote in a tweet as he shared a news article on vaccine insurance. "The collective efforts of the government, R&D community, vaccine manufacturers, and tens of thousands and thousands of medical experts have made this feat possible." Gates additionally tagged the Twitter handles of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Union ministry of health and family welfare which, in turn, retweeted his post.
A general of 10,064,376 doses had been administered in India on Friday, making improvements to the preceding excessive of 8.82 million doses set on August 16. About 6. 9 million vaccine doses had been administered on common throughout the country each day for the beyond a week, the very best tempo of the inoculation pressure ever recorded withinside the country since the beginning of the mass programme on January 16.
Soumya Swaminathan, the lead scientist of the World Health Organization (WHO), was also amongst folks that praised India for administering greater than 10 million Covid-19 vaccines a day, amid fears of some other surge in infections. "Congratulations to the thousands of employees involved," she stated in a tweet. "Vaccination, along with public health & individual preventive measures will shield everyone!"
PM Modi called the record vaccination milestone a "momentous feat" for the country. Applauding the ones getting vaccinated in addition to the ones making the national vaccination drive a success, the Prime Minister stated crossed 10 million vaccine doses is a new record for the country.