India's Prime Minster Narendra Modi addresses supporters of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) during a mass rally ahead of the state legislative assembly elections at the Brigade Parade ground in Kolkata on March 7, 2021. - AFP
NEW DELHI, March 8 (Bloomberg): Following a sluggish start, India’s Covid-19 vaccination drive -- one of the world’s biggest -- has jumped nearly four-fold after the country opened it up to more people and got a crucial public endorsement from the inoculation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Almost 21 million shots have been administered in India so far, up from 5.8 million a month ago, according to data compiled as of Monday by Bloomberg and Johns Hopkins University. The number of doses per 100 people has also climbed to 1.58 from 0.44. A record 1.6 million Indians received a Covid-19 vaccine on Saturday, data show.
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