‘Tika Utsav’, on Monday, India will hold the second day of the mass coronavirus disease (Covid-19) vaccination festival. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, during his virtual address to chief ministers on Thursday, said that such a festival must be celebrated from April 11-14 to speed up the ongoing vaccination drive.
On the first day of the drive, the country recorded 152,879 fresh cases of Covid-19 and 839 new deaths. The number of people infected with the disease in India are 13,358,805 while the death toll stands at 169,275.
‘Tika Utsav’:
1. The ‘Tika Utsav’ is a four-day programme, starting April 11, on the birth anniversary of social activist Jyotiba Phule and ending April 14, on the birth anniversary of BR Ambedkar, aimed at vaccinating as many people as possible against the Covid-19 disease.
2. On Sunday, over 2.7 million doses of the vaccine were given to people across the country, according to the Union health ministry. This was much higher than the number of vaccinations Sunday generally witnesses (about 1.6 million on an average), the ministry said.
3. On Sunday 63,8000 Covid vaccination centres (CVCs) were working, which was much higher than the daily average of 45,000, the ministry added.
4. The two vaccines being used in India to vaccinate its citizens are – Covishield, the Oxford University-AstraZeneca’s shot, which is being manufactured here by the Pune-based Serum Institute of India (SII) and Covaxin, India’s only homemade vaccine against the viral disease, being manufactured by Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech International Limited.
5. Before the start of the programme on Sunday, the PM throughTwitter made four requests to the citizens. The requests were listed as “Each One-Vaccinate One, Each One-Treat One, Each One-Save One, and creation of micro-containment zones”.
6. Through the first request, the PM asked everyone to help those people (less educated or old) who cannot get themselves vaccinated. The second request was about helping those who do not have the means to get vaccinated or do not know about the facilities available. In his third request, he repeated the importance of wearing masks. In his final request, the PM said that when a Covid-19 positive case has been reported, people of the patient’s family and locality must create a micro-containment zone.
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