If There’s ‘Vaccine Olympics’, India Would Get Gold Medal: Anand Mahindra

Mumbai: Anand Mahindra lauded India’s strong immunization pace on Twitter after setting a world record by delivering over 2.50 crore COVID-19 vaccine doses on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s birthday.

Mahindra said, earlier India was vaccinated every three days equal to one Australia. However, yesterday India vaccinated the equivalent of an Australia in a single day. The industrialist said that if there was a ‘Vaccine Olympics’, India would have topped the podium with a gold medal. Also Read: India Breaks Single-Day COVID-19 Vaccination Record, Crosses 2Cr On PM’s Birthday

“A while ago, I noted that we were vaccinating the equivalent of one Australia every three days. Yesterday, we vaccinated the equivalent of one Australia in a day. If there was a ‘Vaccine Olympics’ we’d be on top of the podium, with a Gold medal and a new world record…,” Anand Mahindra tweeted on Saturday.

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As per data available on CoWIN at 11:55 pm, India had administered nearly 2.49 crore vaccine doses on September 17.

Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya stated India clinched, “World’s Fastest Vaccine Drive” title by jabbing 466 doses per second on Friday. He added that 28,000 vaccine doses were administered every minute yesterday.

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With this, India has surpassed China’s highest record of vaccinating 247 million people in a day. Bihar gave the highest dose of 29.38 lakh COVID-19 vaccines in the country yesterday.

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