Key sentence: 

1. The country’s number of deaths stands at 151,327, the dashboard of the health ministry at 8 am revealed.
2. Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that at the beginning of the world’s largest immunization campaign against coronavirus disease.
3. Modi said that some further vaccines are in the pipeline in his virtual meeting between chief ministers.

As per the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Tuesday morning, India’s count increased by more than 10.47 million with 12,584 fresh cases of coronavirus disease (Covid-19), the least in nearly seven months, as well as 167 associated deaths between Monday and Tuesday morning.

As per the Health Ministry Dashboard: 

India, which has the world’s second-highest number of cases, has seen the daily infection count steadily ease from almost 100,000 cases of Covid-19 in September the year before. The country’s number of deaths stands at 151,327, the dashboard of the health ministry at 8 am revealed.

Data indicates that there have been fewer than 170 daily deaths over the past two days. The numbers of active Covid-19 cases were 216,558, and over the past 24 hours, 18,385 individuals were cured of viral disease, taking the country’s recovery rates to 10,111,294 as well as the recovery rate to 96.48 per cent.

The first dose of Vaccine left fro SII: 

From 16 January, India will launch its vaccination drive as well as three trucks packed with the first doses of the coronavirus disease Covishield vaccine released from the Serum Institute of India (SII) in Pune would be sent to various cities throughout India.

 Among the two vaccines authorized by the drug regulator were Covishield, which was developed by Oxford University as well as AstraZeneca and also manufactured by the Pune-based SII, and Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin.

These vaccines will be provided to Chennai, Bhubaneswar, Guwahati, Bengaluru, Chandigarh, Kolkata, Gandhinagar, Hyderabad, Vijaywada, Patna, including Lucknow by private airline companies in Delhi.

As PM Narendra Modi stated: 

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that on Monday that at the beginning of the world’s largest immunization campaign against coronavirus disease, the Centre will cover the entire expense of vaccinating 30 million health care staff as well as frontline workers. According to officials who did not like to be identified, the cost for this process could be about -10,000 crores.

PM Narendra Modi about the Vaccine Campaign:

Modi said that some further vaccines are in the pipeline in his virtual meeting between chief ministers five days earlier the vaccination campaign on Saturday as well as expected to arrive by the time India begins to inoculate senior citizens as well as those with comorbid conditions.

In the first step of its campaign, India intends to vaccinate 300 million people, turning its focus to people over 50 years of age as well as those under 50 with comorbidities, after giving the shot to health care staff including front workers who are at the forefront of the fight towards the pandemic.