Tika Utsav: Day 2 of ‘vaccination festival’ today

Guwahati: India will hold the second day of the mass coronavirus disease vaccination festival, ‘Tika Utsav’, on Monday. During his virtual address to chief ministers on Thursday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi 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.