According to the report, the national immunization initiative also contributed to avoiding economic losses worth 18 thousand 300 million dollars.
The Stanford University and Competitiveness Institute paper titled “Healing the Economy: Estimating the Economic Impact of Vaccination in India and Related Issues” was launched on Friday by Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya.
The investigation highlighted the impact of the lockdown in preventing the spread of the contagious disease, the imposition of which prevented at least two million deaths.
Strong measures on the ground such as contact tracing, mass testing, home quarantine, distribution of medical equipment, renovation of health infrastructure, and constant coordination at the central, state, and district levels helped contain the spread of the pandemic. the official said.
According to the document, the three cornerstones of the Indian strategy – containment, aid package and vaccine administration – were essential to save lives and ensure the country’s economic activity, maintain livelihoods and build immunity against the SARS-coronavirus. CoV-2, the cause of the infection.
Mandaviya stated that India took an “all of government” and “all of society” approach, in a proactive, preventive and graduated manner.
This Saturday, the country registered 180 new cases of Covid-19, while the number of current patients increased to 2,090, according to data from the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
To date, India has 530,764 deaths and the total number of infected people has risen to 44,685,799.
The national recovery rate of patients is 98.80 percent, with 44 million 152 thousand 945 people who have overcome this disease.
So far, more than 2.206 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines have been administered throughout India, whose population is around 1.4 billion.
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