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New Delhi, Sep 18 (EFE/EPA).- India administered over 25 million vaccines against Covid-19 on Friday, a new record achieved through a special campaign to mark Prime Minister Narendra Modis 71st birthday. ARCHIVE FOOTAGE OF VACCINATIONS IN INDIA.
Bangalore, Jun 28 (EFE/EPA).- India surpassed the United States on Monday in the total number of doses of Covid-19 vaccines administered, with more than 323.6 million jabs administered in nearly six months of its national immunization program.According to official data from the Ministry of Health early Monday, India has administered a total of 323,663,297 doses so far.This number exceeds the 323.3 million vaccines in the United States so far, even though the US began its vaccination program a month earlier than India, according to comparative data from the Indian authorities. (Camera: JAGADEESH NV).SHOT LIST: PEOPLE RECEIVE COVID-19 VACCINE IN BANGALORE, INDIA.
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A shipment of nearly four million coronavirus jabs arrives in Nigeria, making Africa's most populous nation the world's third country to receive vaccines under Covax, a global scheme to provide free inoculations. The shipment aboard an Emirates flight arrived shortly before noon at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in the capital Abuja, with 3.94 million Oxford/AstraZeneca doses on board. IMAGES
World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus estimates the number of deaths caused by Covid-19 to be "at least 20 million", well above the official number reported to WHO of "almost seven million deaths". SOUNDBITE
The Covid-19 pandemic killed 13.3 to 16.6 million people in 2020 and 2021, the WHO estimates -- up to triple the number of deaths attributed directly to the disease. The World Health Organization's long-awaited estimate of the total number of deaths caused by the pandemic -- including lives lost to its knock-on effects -- finally puts a number on the broader impact of the crisis. SOUNDBITE