# Vaccine doses

• India has delivered over a billion vaccine doses, making it the second highest dispenser of COVID-19 vaccines globally.

• But the gap between the proportion of population that has got at least one dose and that which got two doses is widest in India.

• According to the Bloomberg tracker vaccination trends globally, 82% of China’s population has got atleast one dose and 76% two doses.

• In India, however this gap is more than twice at 2.4 i.e 51% with atleast one dose and just 21.9% with two doses.

# International trips

• Most Indians are preferring nearby asian countries for tourism instead of europe.

• Similarly, europeans and americans are also preferring their own continents for tourism.

• Most soughted destinations for Indians are Bhutan. srilanka, maldives and Nepal.

# Indian made spray

• A made in India Arometherapy spray is being pulled off retail giant walmart stores in United states.

• A medical investigation has linked it to melioidosis, a rare disease that has sickened at least four.

# Entry for oscars

• Tamil drama Koozhangal (pebbles), directed by filmmaker Vinothraj P.S, has been selected as India’s official entry for the 94th Academy awards.

• The movie follows an alcoholic abusive husband who, after his long suffering wife runs off, sets out with his young son to find her and bring her back.

# Turkey

• Turkish President Recep Taiyaap Erdogan said on saturday that he had ordered the foreign ministry to declare 10 ambassadors from western countries ‘personna non grata’ for calling for the release of philanthrophist Osnan Kavala.

• Mr. Kavala has been in prison for four years, charged with financing nationwide protests in 2013.