100 Crore Vaccination LIVE Updates: PM Modi visits RML Hospital as India races past 1 billion jab milestone

100 Crore Vaccination Milestone LIVE Updates | India Inc says 100 crore doses is a big confidence builder

India's top business leaders and entrepreneurs have lauded the country's landmark feat in administering 100 crore vaccine doses, stating that the scale and the complexity of the feat are unparalleled. They have also said that the robust vaccination numbers are the biggest confidence builder in times of pandemic and that India needs to continue to double down on the pace as it presses ahead to fully vaccinate the entire adult population. India hit a vaccine century on October 21st, 2021, becoming the second country in the world after China to administer 100 crore doses. Read more here...

100 Crore Vaccination Milestone LIVE Updates | PM Narendra Modi visits RML Hospital as the number of COVID-19 vaccine doses administered in India crosses the 100 crore mark. Check pictures

Delhi | PM Modi visits RML Hospital as the number of Covid-19 vaccine doses administered in India crosses the 100 crore mark pic.twitter.com/s9X3CSzTTJ

— ANI (@ANI) October 21, 2021

 100 Crore Vaccination Milestone LIVE Updates | Dr VK Paul congratulates healthcare workers of India

Dr VK Paul, Member-Health, NITI Aayog on India crossing 100 crore vaccination: Congratulations to the people and healthcare workers of India. It is remarkable to reach 1 billion dose mark for any nation, an achievement in just over 9 months since the vaccination program started in India

100 Crore Vaccination Milestone LIVE Updates | India hits milestone of administering 100 crore COVID-19 vaccination doses

India has hit the milestone of administering 100 crore doses of COVID-19 vaccines today. The total vaccine doses administered in the country crossed 100 crore on October 21, according to the data from the Co-WIN portal. Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya has congratulated India on the landmark achievement.

बधाई हो भारत!

दूरदर्शी प्रधानमंत्री श्री @NarendraModi जी के समर्थ नेतृत्व का यह प्रतिफल है।#VaccineCentury pic.twitter.com/11HCWNpFan

— Dr Mansukh Mandaviya (@mansukhmandviya) October 21, 2021

100 Crore Vaccination Milestone LIVE Updates | Govt looking to vaccinate country's entire adult population by year-end: MoS Health

Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Bharati Pravin Pawar on October 21 said that the government has set a target of vaccinating the country's entire adult population by the end of the year. While virtually addressing the FICCI's "Healthcare Excellence Awards ceremony, Pawar informed that under the 'Make in India' initiative of Prime Minister Narendra Modi India is one of the leading countries in the global medical devices market in the world.

Detailing the success amid challenges posed by COVID-19, the Union minister said, "More than 99 crore doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in the country and the government has set a target of vaccinating the country's entire adult population by end of the year."

100 Crore Vaccination Milestone LIVE Updates | The Centre has said that all those villages which have completed 100 per cent vaccination should mark the 100 crore-doses administered achievement by putting up posters and banners complimenting health workers for their role in the exercise. 

 100 Crore Vaccination Milestone LIVE Updates | SpiceJet to unveil special livery at Delhi airport to celebrate achievement

SpiceJet will unveil a special livery at the Delhi airport to celebrate the 100 crore vaccine milestone on Thursday. The health minister, Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia and SpiceJet CMD Ajay Singh will be present on the occasion.

Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya had earlier said that announcements will be made on airplanes, ships, metros and at railway stations when India achieves its target of administering 100 crore doses. Celebrations will also be held at central government hospitals in the city to mark the occasion.

100 Crore Vaccination Milestone LIVE Updates | Country's largest khadi tricolour to be displayed at Red Fort to mark 100-crore vaccination

To mark the completion of administering of 100 crore COVID-19 vaccine doses, the largest khadi tricolour in the country, weighing around 1,400 kg, will be displayed at the Red Fort on Thursday, official sources said. The same tricolour with dimensions 225 feet by 150 feet was unfurled on October 2  Gandhi Jayanti  in Leh, they said.

Speaking about the flag, a source said, The same 1,400-kg handwoven khadi tricolour, the largest in the country, which was unfurled in Leh to mark Mahatma Gandhi's 152nd birth anniversary and the 75th year of Independence will also be displayed at the Red Fort  to mark the occasion (100 crore doses). The flag is the largest handwoven and handspun cotton khadi flag ever manufactured in India and it measures 225 feet by 150 feet, the source said. (PTI)

100 Crore Vaccination Milestone LIVE Updates | Govt appeals people to get vaccinated as India nears 100-crore jabs landmark

As India nears the milestone of administering 100 crore Covid vaccine doses, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Wednesday appealed to all those who are eligible to get inoculated without delay and contribute to the historic vaccination journey of India. A series of events have been lined up to celebrate the milestone of administering 100 crore Covid vaccine doses. Mandaviya will launch a song by singer Kailash Kher and an audio-visual film at the Red Fort.
"The country is close to making a vaccine century. To be a part of this golden opportunity, I appeal to the citizens who are yet to be vaccinated to contribute to this historic golden vaccination journey of India by getting vaccinated immediately," he said in a tweet in Hindi.

 100 Crore Vaccination LIVE Updates | India is likely to hit the milestone of administering 100 crore doses of COVID-19 vaccines today. More than 102.4 crore (102,48,12,565) COVID-19 vaccine doses have been provided to the states and Union territories so far through the Government of India (free of cost channel) and under the direct state procurement category, the Union health ministry said on Wednesday.

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