Ministry of Health
and Family Welfare
#LargestVaccineDrive
Momentous day for India as the world’s largest COVID19 vaccination
drive rolls out
India
Posted On: 16 JAN
2021 11:37AM by PIB
Today marks a momentous day in the
COVID-19 trajectory of the country as
This day also sees
The Total Recoveries have crossed 96% of the total cases, at
96.56%.
2,11,033 cases are positive as on date, either in
supervised home isolation or in hospitals.The Recovered Cases are above 1 crore (1,01,79,715).
The Recovery Rate has progressively
shown a sustained climb. The gap between the total recovered cases and active
cases has grown to 99,68,682 as on date.
As the active cases in the country
follow a downward slide, 25 States and UTs are reporting less than 5,000 active
cases. The caseload in these States/UTs constitutesjust
15% of total active cases
The distribution of Active Cases across
various states and UTs is as under.
81.94% of the new recovered cases are
observed to be concentrated in 10 States/UTs.
Kerala has reported the maximum number
of single day recoveries with 4,603 newly recovered cases. 3,500 people
recovered in
80.81% of the new cases are from 8 States and UTs.
Kerala continues to report the highest
daily new cases at 5,624. It is followed by Maharashtra with 3,145 while
175 case fatalities have been reported in
the past 24 hours.
Six States/UTs account for 69.14%of new deaths.
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Ministry of Health
and Family Welfare
COVID-19 Vaccination
India begins World’s
Largest Vaccination Drive today
Dr. Harsh Vardhan joins doctors and healthcare workers at AIIMS, New Delhi on
this momentous day
At AIIMS New Delhi, Sanitation Worker first recipient of the Vaccine
After Smallpox and Polio, it is the turn of COVID. This is beginning of the end
of COVID: Dr. Harsh Vardhan
“Vaccine will be remembered like a Sanjeevani for clinching the Victory over
COVID”
“The Prime Minister and all Chief Ministers along with my fellow colleague
Health Ministers have worked as a team and created a History today”
Posted On: 16 JAN
2021 5:25PM by PIB
Dr. Harsh Vardhan, Union Minister of
Health and Family Welfare chose to be with doctors, nurses and other healthcare
and frontline workers at AIIMS,
He applauded their selfless devotion and
commitment to the nation’s fight against COVID-19, as the a sanitation worker
Shri Manish Kumar became the first recipient of the vaccination drive at AIIMS,
New Delhi.
Describing the exercise as the start of
the climax of the pandemic that started a year before, Dr. Harsh Vardhan said,
“The Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has been personally involved in the
management of the pandemic since the start. Today marks the culmination of five
months’ hard work on rolling out the COVID vaccines.”
Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi ji
launched the COVID-19 vaccination drive at 10:30 AM via video conferencing.
The Minister marvelled at the span and
scope of the world’s largest COVID19 vaccination drive. “3006 session sites
across all States and UTs held the exercise simultaneously today with around
100 beneficiaries vaccinated at each of the sites. With a population of 138
crore and a history of Universal Immunization Program which involves targeted
vaccination against twelve vaccine preventable diseases, India stands at the
cusp of recording history and shows the way to peers across the globe. After
Smallpox and Polio, it is the turn of COVID. All the remote, hard to reach
areas, urban slums, tribal belts are all covered in today’s exercise.”
Dr Harsh Vardhan elaborated on the
preparations that were taken up for this huge exercise:- “More than a lakh
vaccinators were trained; multiple mock exercises were conducted; a pan-India
national exercise was also conducted to hammer out the slightest glitches.
Technology was used to bolster performance as the eVIN platform was repurposed
to CoWIN (Winning over COVID), SMS sent to all beneficiaries since the last two
days (for today’s session) which would be repeated on schedule for their second
dose and across all beneficiaries in all sessions”.
The Health Minister added that efficient
teamwork and staunch political commitment formed the bedrock of this massive
exercise. “The Prime Minister and all the Chief Ministers along with my fellow
colleague Health Ministers have worked as a team and made history today”, he
said.
Dr. Harsh Vardhan overlooks as the 1st
Vaccine is administered
Dr. Harsh Vardhan took the occasion to
remind everyone of the significant milestones achieved against COVID in the last
year. He observed, “The pro-active, pre-emptive and graded approach with a
meticulous monitoring of the trajectory of the disease, effective clinical
management have enabled a valiant fight against it and saved our people to a
very large extent.
Dr. Harsh Vardhan remembered the brave
sacrifices made by the COVID Warriors who helped others putting their own lives
at risk while defending the decision to give the vaccine first to healthcare
workers in the private and public facilities alike. He also congratulated the
common people of
He also stressed on the need to counter
the rumours and myth mongering in relation to administering of COVID19
vaccines. He also appealed people not to be misguided by the misinformation
campaigns and believe only credible and authentic information. Dr. Harsh
Vardhan noted, “The whole country has been waiting for life to return to
normal. People have lost their near and dear ones. These few people who are
misleading others into questioning the integrity of the process are being
unfair to the sacrifices made by the common people and the future of our
society.”
Dr.
Randeep Guleria, Director AIIMS and Dr. V.K. Paul, Member (Health), NITI Aayog
and Chair, National Expert Group of Vaccine Administration for Covid-19 (NEGVAC) also received vaccination at
AIIMS today.
After the visit to AIIMS,
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