Hyderabad : Union Minister of Tourism G Kishan Reddy has
said that the Government of India is determined to vaccinate everyone
by December this year.
Speaking after presenting prizes to the winners of the PGTI Golconda
Masters Telangana open Golf Championship here on Sunday, said that the
Government under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi is
running the world’s biggest vaccination program and till date
vaccinated 69 crore people on free of cost, which is a major
accomplishment by itself.
“ We want to reach out to the last person to be vaccinated in the
country, in the most remote part, by December this year. It’s also a
matter of great pride that India was one of the two countries which
invented a vaccine for COVID, besides USA, this raised the stature of
Indian scientists and the Country in the world.”, Mr Reddy said.
The Union Minister said 153 countries have sought our vaccines and
some even paid the respective companies advance amount, but the
Government placed an embargo on export till people in our country are
vaccinated. Recently we vaccinated 1.33 crore people in a day and are