Updated Jan 17, 2021 · 04:42 pm
A healthcare worker receives a coronavirus vaccine shot on the first day of the vaccination drive in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, on January 16.
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Amit Dave/ Reuters
A total of 1,91,181 beneficiaries
were
vaccinated on the first day of India’s coronavirus vaccination drive as the country kickstarted its inoculation campaign with two locally manufactured shots, the Union health ministry said on Saturday.
No case of post-vaccination hospitalisation was reported as of Saturday evening, it added.
The first dose was administered to a sanitation worker at the All Indian Institute of Medical Sciences in Delhi, after Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the campaign with a nationally televised speech.