The worrisome trend, just days after the world surpassed 3 million deaths, comes as countries roll out vaccinations in an effort to get the virus under control.
Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan also said that the manufacture of remdesivir jabs, an anti-viral drug against Covid, will be doubled to 74.1 lakh per month by May.
The Union Health Ministry Sunday said that India has inoculated 12.26 crore doses to beneficiaries prioritised by the National Expert Group on Vaccine Administration for Covid-19.
The number of vaccinations per day has fluctuated through April and shown an overall downward trend, at a time when Covid cases and deaths have been surging.
On 5 April, Lucknow recorded around 18,000 vaccinations in a day. Ten days later, on 15 April, the day after the end of the 'Tika Utsav', the number was down to 8,907.
67 doctors & staffers tested positive for Covid at Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Rohtak, Saturday. As many as 174 have tested positive in past six days.
Satyendar Jain had made the request last June too, and reiterated it in a meeting chaired by Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan amid Covid surge across India.
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The 125 APAs include 86 Unilateral APAs (UAPAs) and 39 Bilateral APAs (BAPAs). The total number of APAs since the start of the APA programme has risen to 641, with 506 UAPAs and 135 BAPAs.
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