Union health minister Harsh Vardhan has said that India’s scientists and health experts have worked on the development of an indigenous vaccine and in the upcoming six to seven months India will have the capacity to inoculate about 30 crore people.
Addressing the 22nd Group of Ministers (GoM) meeting on Covid-19, health minister said, “Our scientists and health experts have worked on the development of a vaccine by genome sequencing and isolation of the coronavirus and developed an indigenous vaccine. In 6-7 months, we will have the capacity to inoculate about 30 crore people.”
Health Minister said, “There have been a little over one crore cases of Covid-19 in India. Of that, 95 lakh 50 thousand cases have recovered successfully. India has one of the highest recovery rates in the world at 95.46 per cent.”
During his address, he praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his “exemplary leadership” throughout the coronavirus pandemic.
“…I would like to thank all of you, in particular, our Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who has provided us exemplary leadership throughout the last one year, leading from the front and monitoring everything very very meticulously. Even now when we are into the vaccine development, he himself is visiting each and every laboratory in the country,” he said.
