Coronavirus India Highlights: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while reviewing the progress of the country’s Covid-19 vaccination drive, said that vaccine wastage numbers are still on a higher side and that steps need to be taken to bring them down. The prime minister also took stock of the status of vaccination coverage in healthcare workers as well as frontline workers, besides those in 45-plus and 18-44 years age groups, the PMO said. “Government of India is actively working with vaccine manufacturers ad helping them in terms of facilitating more production units, financing and supply of raw materials,” it added. The WHO approval holds importance as there is a discussion about granting vaccine passports only to those given WHO-approved vaccines. Out of the total cases, active cases further declined to over 16 lakh and the total number of recoveries went up to over 2.65 crore.

Source: Indian Express June 03, 2021 02:28 UTC