3179 A health worker gets the first dose of the Covishield vaccine at the Civil Hospital, Amritsar, on Saturday. Photo: Sunil Kumar
Manmeet Singh Gill
Amritsar, January 16
The Health Department on Saturday launched the Covid vaccination programme in the district with Rajesh Sharma, a lab technician of the Jallianwala Bagh Martyrs Memorial Civil Hospital, becoming the first person to get the Covid-19 vaccine.
Apart from the Civil Hospital, the vaccination drive was simultaneously conducted at Government Medical College and the Community Health Centre (CHC) at Verka. The district health authorities reported that a total of 78 employees were vaccinated.
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