Prime Minister Narendra Modi Wednesday exhorted that Covid vaccines should now be taken door-to-door and there should be equal focus on the second dose. For this campaign, he suggested that religious leaders and youth organizations also be roped in. 

At a virtual meeting of Chief Ministers and officials of states where the vaccine coverage is less than 50 per cent, Modi said:  "Till now all of you have made arrangements for taking the people to vaccination centers. Now vaccines should be taken to every door, there should be door-to-door vaccine.".

"Under the free vaccine campaign, we have administered about 2.5 crore (25 million) vaccine doses in a day. It shows our capacity," he said.

Now the motto is 'Every home vaccine, door-to-door vaccine'. We have to reach every house with this spirit, Modi said.

"We have to focus on every village, every town. If you have to make a different strategy for each village, do it... you can form teams of 25 people. You can also take the help of NCC and NSS. We have to make more and more people aware," Modi said.

At the recent G20 summit in Rome, Modi had said India has administered one billion doses. According to government figures, around three-quarters of adults in the country of 1.3 billion people have had one shot and 30 percent are fully vaccinated,

The Indian government aims to fully vaccinate the country's adult population by the year-end.