“Most of our population is still not vaccinated. When will the Indian government start booster shots? #VaccinateIndia,” he said on Twitter.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said on Wednesday that a large population of the country is still not vaccinated. COVID-19, noting that by the end of December only 42% of the population would be vaccinated against the required rate of 60% to prevent a third wave of vaccinations. coronavirus, He also asked the government to provide booster shots.
Sharing data about vaccination, Mr Gandhi said there is a shortfall of 55.3 million doses per day. [One million is equal to 10 lakh.]
“Most of our population is still not vaccinated. When will the Indian government start booster shots? #VaccinateIndia,” he said on Twitter.
The former Congress President said that according to the current vaccination rate, 42 percent of the population will be vaccinated by December 2021.
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“Aim to stop the third wave. Target 60% of the population with both doses by December 2021. Required VAX rate (vaccinations per day) 61 million/day. Actual last 7 days (vaccinations per day) 5.8 million/day. Past The daily shortfall in 7 days (average bad reduction per day) is 55.2 million/day,” said the data shared by them.
The data also stated that “actual vaccination today (December 22 (Vax in last 24 hours) 5.7 million/day, decrease of today (Vax reduction in last 24 hours) 55.3 million/day”.
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Mr Gandhi and the Congress party have been critical of the government’s vaccine strategy and have called for an expedited vaccination to prevent another wave of the coronavirus.
There are also growing concerns over the spread of the new Omicron version of the virus in the country.
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