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  • 2021-05-21 (xsd:date)
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  • meaning Prime Minister Narendra Modi.Reddy’s tweet is misleading: 180 million+ is an estimate of the number of doses that have been administered in India so far, not the number of people vaccinated.According to Our World in Data, as of May 18, 144.1 million people had received at least one shot of the vaccine. Out of the 144.1 million, 40.9 million – only about 3 percent of India’s population – had received both shots.So, while 185 million COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered, fewer people have been vaccinated than Reddy claimed.India is a leading maker of vaccines, and joined the World Health Organization’s COVAX program in partnership with other U.N. bodies and Gavi, an alliance to help get COVID-19 vaccines to low- and middle-income countries. In early March, it donated 150,000 doses to Iran through the program. But simultaneously, the country has failed to control the coronavirus pandemic, largely because of domestic vaccine shortages. Even if the projected supply was available (en)
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  • On May 17, as India continued to be crushed by the coronavirus pandemic, S. Vishnu Vardhan Reddy, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) general secretary for the state of Andhra Pradesh, tweeted praise for the authorities' vaccination campaign.Till date we have vaccinated 18cr+ [180 million+] Indians. Free vaccines for 45+ age group. Free ration to 80cr+ people for months (en)
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