India launches one of worldâs biggest Covid-19 vaccination campaigns
By Reuters
By Krishna N. Das and Mayank Bhardwaj
New Delhi - Sanitation worker Manish Kumar became the first person in India to be vaccinated against Covid-19 on Saturday, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched one of the world s largest immunisation campaigns to bring the pandemic under control.
India is prioritising nurses, doctors and other frontline workers, and Modi had tears in his eyes as he addressed healthcare workers through video conferencing. The disease separated people from their families, kept mothers away from their children, and those who died of the disease couldn t even get a final goodbye from their families, Modi said.