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Covid vaccinations in India fall from peak as infections hit record

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NEW DELHI : India's daily COVID-19 vaccinations have slowed from their record high early this month while new infections have set a record in eight of the past nine days, government data show, underscoring a lack of doses in the country.After giving and selling tens of millions of COVID-19 vaccine doses abroad, India has suddenly found itself short of shots.

It has abruptly changed rules to allow it to fast-track vaccine imports, having earlier rebuffed foreign drugmakers like Pfizer.Vaccinations peaked at 4.5 million doses on April 5 but have averaged about 3 million a day since then, according to the government's Co-Win portal to coordinate immunisations.The country of 1.35 billion people has reported the most number of coronavirus cases.

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