Airlines were due to deliver 5.65 million vaccine doses on Tuesday to various cities, aviation minister Hardeep Singh Puri said on Twitter. Serum is supplying some 11 million doses of the shot to the government at 200 rupees ($2.72) a dose, a source said. Health authorities in eastern and western states said they would use the experience from regular child immunisation programmes for polio to ensure everyone gets covered in what they called the world's biggest vaccination drive. At close to 10.5 million, India has the second highest number of COVID-19 infections globally behind the United States, although the rate of increase in cases has been slowing. On Tuesday, the number of infections in India climbed by 12,584, the lowest daily increase in several months.

Source: bd News24 January 12, 2021 06:45 UTC