India Hits one thousand million Covid-19 Vaccines Administered

fresh stories have proven that the effectiveness of Covid-19 vaccines is lowering, notwithstanding experts say the photographs nonetheless work smartly. WSJ explains what the numbers imply and why they don't tell the complete story. photograph illustration: Jacob Reynolds/WSJ

NEW DELHI—India said it had administered a billion Covid-19 vaccines, hitting a milestone in a once-faltering crusade and signaling that the country might start enabling more vaccine exports quickly.

whereas India has nevertheless most effective given two doses to about 31% of the adult population, the govt celebrated the achievement Thursday. The nation of greater than 1.three billion, which has been devastated by using the pandemic, is second simplest to China within the total variety of doses administered.