India Nears One Billion Vaccine Doses, Likely Tonight Or Tomorrow Morning
NDTV
To mark the billionth shot the government will make announcements over loudspeakers on trains, planes, and ships, and hoist the tricolour at Delhi's Red Fort
Nine months and four days after the national COVID-19 vaccination drive was launched, India is set to complete 1 billion, or 100 crore, doses and the government has planned a gala celebration for what it has said will be a "great achievement".
Only one other country has administered over a billion vaccine doses - China (crossed 1 billion doses in June), which is also the only other country to have a population of more than one billion.
Sources have said the billionth dose is expected to be administered late Wednesday night or early Thursday morning; as of this afternoon 99.2 crore jabs have been handed out, according to CoWIN.
Sources also declared an estimated 2,500 shots have been administered every minute so far.
