Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said that the country will achieve the historical feat of administering 1.5 billion Covid vaccine doses in less than a year, today.

Virtually inaugurating the second campus of Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute (CNCI) in West Bengal's Kolkata, PM Modi said, "The country had started the new year with the beginning of vaccination of the youth from 15 to 18 years age group. Today, in the first week of the first month of the year, the country is achieving the historical feat of administering 1.5 billion Covid vaccine doses in less than a year's time."