India’s next big daily Covid vaccination record – after 88.09 lakh on June 21 and 1.03 crore on August 27 – is likely to be set Friday, when leaders of the ruling BJP have been urged to promote the jabs and state officials told to double the daily rate to celebrate Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s 71st birthday,
Top officials now accept they are aiming for a record on the Prime Minister’s birthday.
“He is our Prime Minister… on his birthday we will try to make a fresh daily vaccination record,” Dr Sujeet Singh, the Director of the National Centre for Disease Control, told NDTV.
The push for a new daily record on the Prime Minister’s birthday comes amid intense scrutiny of vaccination numbers, and with the focus on an ever-growing target – currently around 1.2 crore doses per day – to inoculate at least 60 per cent of the population by December-end.
While a large part of efforts to boost numbers for the day will likely come from BJP-ruled states (or those ruled by its NDA allies), the worry is the larger states – which must deliver big numbers to ensure a record is set – are going slow on vaccines in the build-up to Friday.
News Source: Republic World
