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Hospitals were decked out with flowers and one politician planted a tree as India began on Saturday (local time) its colossal coronavirus vaccine drive, desperately hoping to end a pandemic that has killed 150,000 of its people.
India aims to vaccinate around 300 million of its 1.3 billion people by July - a number equal to almost the entire US population - with frontline workers, people over 50 and those deemed high risk first in line.
On day one, around 300,000 people were due to be vaccinated with Covishield, developed by AstraZeneca and made by India s Serum Institute, or the homegrown Covaxin.
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Flowers, Hope, Consent Forms for India s Huge Vaccine Rollout Against Covid-19 That Killed 150,000 Citizens
A medic records details of frontline workers during the administering of COVID-19 vaccine at Howrah district Hospital, Saturday, Jan 16, 2021. (PTI Photo/Swapan Mahapatra)
India aims to vaccinate around 300 million of its 1.3 billion people by July a number equal to almost the entire US population with frontline workers, people over 50 and those deemed high risk first in line.
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Hospitals were decked out with flowers and one politician planted a tree as India began Saturday its colossal coronavirus vaccine drive, desperately hoping to end a pandemic that has killed 150,000 of its people.