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Share on Twitter 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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