PM Modi holds review meet to discuss India’s COVID vaccination strategy

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday held a review meeting with top officials regarding India’s vaccination strategy.

Numerous issues related to the progress of vaccine development, regulatory approvals and procurement were discussed.

“Held a meeting to review India’s vaccination strategy and the way forward. Important issues related to progress of vaccine development, regulatory approvals and procurement were discussed,” PM Modi tweeted.

“Reviewed various issues like prioritisation of population groups, reaching out to HCWs, cold-chain Infrastructure augmentation, adding vaccinators and tech platform for vaccine roll-out,” he added.

India’s COVID-19 caseload surpassed the 90-lakh mark on Friday with 45,882 new cases. Of the total cases, 84,28,409 have been cured/discharged. There are 4.43,794 active cases of COVID-19 in India, according to the Union Health Ministry data.