Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray launched the inoculation drive at a Covid care centre at Bandra Kurla Complex (BKC) in Mumbai.
MUMBAI: The dean of JJ Hospital in Mumbai, doctors, and former Maharashtra health minister Deepak Sawant were among the first beneficiaries to receive Covid-19 vaccine on the first day of the inoculation drive.
Dr Ranjit Mankeshwar, Dean, JJ Hospital, in Mumbai and Dr Padmaja Saraf received the vaccine shots in Mumbai and at Jalna civil hospital, respectively.
Mumbai: Chief minister Uddhav Thackeray inugaurates the #COVID19Vaccination centre at Bandra Kurla Complex. https://t.co/pqSMA9Kf92 TOI Mumbai (@TOIMumbai) 1610779746000
India Rolls Out World’s Largest Inoculation Programme Against Covid-19
The cost of vaccination of healthcare and frontline workers will be borne by the central government. PTI Photo/R Senthil Kumar Outlook Web Bureau 2021-01-16T20:01:54+05:30 India Rolls Out World’s Largest Inoculation Programme Against Covid-19 outlookindia.com 2021-01-16T20:40:21+05:30
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As Prime Minister Narendra Modi rolled out the world’s largest vaccination drive against Covid-19, showing the light at the end of a 10-month tunnel that upended millions of lives, thousands of healthcare and sanitary workers at the frontline of India’s Covid-19 battle got their first jabs on Saturday.
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.