India achieved a new milestone in its Covid vaccination drive by administering over 10 million doses on Friday, its highest single-day count so far.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi took to Twitter to congratulate the people for making the immunisation exercise a success.

"Record vaccination numbers today! Crossing 1 crore (10 million) is a momentous feat. Kudos to those getting vaccinated and those making the vaccination drive a success," he tweeted.

Record vaccination numbers today!

Crossing 1 crore is a momentous feat. Kudos to those getting vaccinated and those making the vaccination drive a success.

— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) August 27, 2021

Data on the CoWIN portal showed 1,02,06,475 vaccine doses had been administered on Friday.

Earlier in the day, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare had tweeted that 620 doses of coronavirus vaccines had been administered in the country so far.

As per the CoWIN portal, over 140 million people - about 15 per cent of eligible people in the country - have received both doses of Covid vaccines.

The pace of vaccination in the country picked up following a policy reversal in June when the centre started providing vaccines free of charge to all above the age of 18 and took back control of vaccination from states.

The central government also started buying 75 per cent of the vaccines produced by companies, including 25 per cent assigned to states. Private hospitals continue to buy the remaining 25 per cent and inoculate those willing to pay for their jabs.

Walk-in registration was opened up to step up the pace of vaccination in the wake of concerns that digital divide and glitches on the CoWIN portal were proving to be hurdles in the immunisation exercise.
 
Amid fears of third wave of Covid infections, the country is now racing against time to meet its target of fully vaccinating its adult population by the end of this year, NDTV said.