The total infected rises to 6.5 million
75 thousand new cases of Corona virus in India
Coronavirus examination of a woman in Mumbai.
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Yesterday, the Indian Ministry of Health announced the registration of 75 thousand and 829 new cases of Coronavirus during the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of cases of the virus to six million 549 thousand and 373 cases.
The "NDTV" network quoted the ministry as saying that 940 deaths from the virus were recorded, bringing the total deaths from the virus to 101,782 cases, which is the third highest death toll related to "Covid-19" in the world after the United States and Brazil.
The epidemiologist T.
Jacob John told «AFP»: «We do not know to what degree can be relied on death rates issued by India».
And with nearly a million tests performed every day, the proportion of the tests out of the population is five times lower than the United States, according to the Worldmeter Worldwide Statistics website.
In addition, the Indian Minister of Health, Harsh Vardan, said that his country hopes to obtain up to 500 million doses of the Corona virus vaccine by next July to immunize about 250 million people.
Vardan said in a tweet on the social networking site "Twitter": "There is a committee of experts at a high level that studies all aspects of vaccines.
Our initial estimate and our goal is to obtain between 400 million and 500 million doses covering (between 200 million and 250 million individuals) by July 2021. "
The Indian Serology Institute and private companies have collaborated with bodies such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the US drug company, Novavax, in efforts to secure vaccines for India's 1.3 billion people.
The minister emphasized that the federal government is committed to taking all measures that ensure a fair and equitable distribution of vaccines as soon as they are ready.
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