India
oi-Madhuri Adnal
New Delhi, Aug 17: India has administered more than 88.13 lakh COVID-19 vaccine doses in the last 24 hours, the highest ever vaccination achieved in a single day, the Union Health Ministry said on Tuesday.
In a tweet, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said, “India achieves the highest single-day record in #COVID19 vaccine doses.Yesterday will go down in the history of the world”s #LargestVaccineDrive.Congratulations.”
Cumulatively, 55,47,30,609 vaccine doses have been administered through 62,12,108 sessions across India, as per the provisional report till 7 am.
Besides, the ministry said more than 56.81 crore vaccine doses have been provided to states and UTs so far through all sources and a further 1,09,32,960 doses are in the pipeline.
Of this, the total consumption including wastage is 55,11,51,992Â doses, according to the data available at 8 AM.
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