National Vaccination Day 2021: When it comes to coronavirus, governments around the world are working to get their population vaccinated against the highly infectious disease. While several countries have launched vaccination drive, the largest one started on January 16 in India. The vaccination drive is currently in the second phase in which people over the age of 60 years or those above 45 years with comorbidities are being inoculated. According to data released by the Union Health Ministry, the country is nearing 3 crore cumulative vaccination doses.
The ministry said that a total of 2,97,38,409 vaccine doses have been administered through 5,10,400 sessions till Sunday.
While 73,47,895 healthcare and 11,35,573 frontline workers have been vaccinated or given the first dose, there are 42,95,201 healthcare and 73,32,641 frontline workers have been fully vaccinated…