Vax.India.Now, a virtual fundraiser to support India in its fight against COVID-19, has raised more than $5 million. Liam Neeson, Annie Lennox, A.R. Rahman, Pia Toscano, Zubin Mehta, Gloria Estefan…
, which was globally livestreamed by CNN and Dreamstage.live, and hosted by Hasan Minhaj. The beneficiaries are UNICEF and AIG.
At its peak, the virus was infecting 400,000 people a day in India. There have been 32 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 428,000 deaths, according to the World Health Organization. A total of 479 million vaccine doses have now been administered and new infections are now down to 35,000 a day. “Special thank you to the Indian team that had to work through a national lockdown,” Palakurthi added. “The campaign is still open at
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