V-Day: Healthcare workers get first jabs amid cheers
V-Day: Healthcare workers get first jabs amid cheers
Last Updated: Sat, Jan 16th, 2021, 15:56:57hrs
New Delhi: Healthcare workers at the frontline of India s COVID-19 battle got their first jabs on Saturday with Prime Minister Narendra Modi launching the world s largest vaccination drive against the pandemic, showing the light at the end of a 10-month tunnel that upended millions of lives and livelihoods.
More than one crore cases and 1.5 lakh fatalities later, India took its first steps out of the pandemic with shots of the Covishield and Covaxin vaccines being administered at medical centres across the country to a collective sigh of relief that this could finally be the beginning of the end of the COVID-19 trauma.
NEW DELHI: The immunisation programme against Covid-19 kicked off in India on Saturday. Over 300 million people are expected to be covered under the world s largest immunisation programme.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the vaccination drive against the novel coronavirus via video conferencing on Saturday morning.
Thousands of health workers and other frontline workers are expected to be inoculated on the first day of the immunisation program.
Here is a look at the top developments from the day.
Decisive victory for the country: PM Narendra Modi
Modi said these vaccines will ensure a decisive victory for the country over the coronavirus pandemic, but asked countrymen to continue wearing masks and maintain social distancing even after receiving the jabs.
New Delhi: Over 1.6 lakh healthcare and sanitary workers at the frontline of India's COVID-19 battle got their first jabs on Saturday as Prime Minister