Dr. NK Arora, Chairman of the National Technical Advisory Group on Vaccination, said that the current situation of Covid in India is under control and there is nothing to panic. However, he said that people should adopt Covid-friendly behavior and take precautionary doses of the vaccine. India has ramped up the process of surveillance and genome sequencing of Covid-infected samples amid rising cases in Japan, the US, South Korea, Brazil, France and China. 97 percent of India’s eligible population received the first dose of the anti-Covid- vaccine, while percent received the second dose Is. Only 27 percent of the population has received a preventive dose.

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