{"id":271841,"date":"2022-07-18T08:41:19","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T03:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=271841"},"modified":"2022-07-18T08:41:19","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T03:41:19","slug":"indias-covid-19-vaccinations-hit-2-bln-new-cases-at-four-month-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/indias-covid-19-vaccinations-hit-2-bln-new-cases-at-four-month-high\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s COVID-19 vaccinations hit 2 bln, new cases at four-month high"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> NEW DELHI<br \/>\nThe Indian government\u2019s COVID-19 vaccinations hit 2 billion on Sunday, with booster doses underway for all adults, as daily infections hit four-month high, official data showed.<br \/>\nPrime Minister Narendra Modi extolled the vaccination milestone, celebrating the world\u2019s largest and longest-running inoculation campaign, which began last year.<br \/>\n\u201cIndia creates history again!\u201d Modi said in a tweet. The prime minister has faced allegations from the opposition of mishandling the pandemic that experts claim killed millions. The government rejects the claims.<br \/>\nHealth ministry data shows the COVID death toll at 525,709, with 49 deaths recorded overnight.<br \/>\nNew cases rose 20,528 over the past 24 hours, the highest since Feb. 20, according to data compiled by Reuters.<br \/>\nThe country of 1.35 billion people has lifted most COVID-related restrictions, and international travel has recovered robustly.<br \/>\nSome 80 percent of the inoculations have been the AstraZeneca vaccine made domestically, called Covishield. Others include domestically developed Covaxin and Corbevax, and Russia\u2019s Sputnik V.<br \/>\nThe federal government has been accelerating its booster campaign to avert the spread of infections, edging higher in the eastern states of Assam, West Bengal and Karnataka in the south.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI The Indian government\u2019s COVID-19 vaccinations hit 2 billion on Sunday, with booster doses underway for all adults, as daily infections hit four-month high, official data showed. 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