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Meet Manish Kumar, India’s first Covid vaccine recipient
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Published: Saturday, January 16, 2021, 16:31 [IST]
New Delhi, Jan 16: Manish Kumar, a 34-year-old machine operator at AIIMS became the first person in Delhi to get the COVID-19 vaccine. He had himself asked the hospital authorities to be vaccinated first as his colleagues chosen for the exercise were scared to get the jab.
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Kumar, whose mother Laxmi Rani also works at the hospital, said he was not at all nervous, had a good sleep and was proud of getting the vaccine .
He was administered a COVID-19 vaccine during the launch of the nationwide vaccination programme at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in the presence of Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Saturday.