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Government confident India will have over 2 billion vaccine doses by December, minister says
The Indian government is confident that the country will be able to meet an ambitious target of having more than 2 billion coronavirus vaccine doses by the end of the year, Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said. Last month, Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said in a statement that India will have 516 million vaccine doses by […]
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