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“The government plans to receive and use between 400 and 500 million doses of covid-19 vaccines,” Indian Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said at an event. online where he spoke to the public about the latest events related to the pandemic.
According to the minister, the government’s goal is to reach 200 to 250 million people by July 2021, when they will receive the vaccines. an insufficient number for a country of 1.3 billion people.
Therefore, Vardhan said that The vaccines will be distributed in a “centralized, rigorous and coordinated” way to prevent some doses from being resold on the black market., with the aim of reaching strategic sectors such as health personnel or vulnerable people, such as the elderly.
India has recorded 75,829 cases of infections in the past 24 hours, authorities said on Sunday, a day after the country had surpassed 100,000 deaths caused by COVID-19.
Since the start of the pandemic, India has recorded 101,782 deaths and more than 6.5 million cases, and the total number of infections rose from one million in mid-July to more than six million in less than two and a half months.
India continues to record the highest number of daily cases worldwide, but with a recovery rate higher than 83%.
Despite these figures, India announced on October 15 the fifth phase of indefiniteness where the reopening of schools is authorized, although it depends on the decision of regional governments, and cinemas with a capacity limited to 50%.
However, some regions of India have already warned that they will not yet allow schools to reopen, such as New Delhi, which has assumed they will remain closed until October 31 for the safety of children.
