India begins vaccinating adolescents, there are 253 million

Vaccinations for children between the ages of 15 and 18 have begun in India: approximately 253 million people according to UNICEF data. Young people will be given two doses of Covaxin 28 days apart.

"The biggest vaccination campaign in the world has begun. If the kids are safe, our country's future is safe," Minister Mansukh Mandaviya tweeted. India has recorded an additional 33,750 new cases of Covid-19 in the past 24 hours, a record since September 18, and 123 deaths.

In the week ended yesterday, however, there were almost 130 thousand positives, 182% more than the 46,073 infections of the previous week. According to the Times of India, this is the strongest increase ever since the beginning of the pandemic.

(Unioneonline / ss)