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Tika Utsav: COVID-19 Vaccination Drive

Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently appealed to the Chief Ministers of the States to organise “Tika Utsav”. Tika Utsav is a vaccine festival. It is to be held between April 11, 2021, and April 14, 2021. The main objective of the festival is to vaccinate as many people as possible. It will also focus on zero wastage of the COVID-19 vaccine.

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COVID-19 Vaccination Drive in India:

Currently, three states are receiving a maximum number of COVID-19 doses. They are Maharashtra, Rajasthan, and Gujarat.
COVAXIN and COVISHIELD are the two major COVID-19 vaccines that are currently administered in India.
So far, India has shipped 64 million doses of vaccines to 84 countries in the Caribbean, Africa, and Asia. The major recipient countries of the Indian COVID-19 vaccines are Mexico, Canada, and Brazil.
The GoI has planned to cover 250 million people included in the “high priority” category by July 2021 under its vaccination programme.

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