Felt normal, gives me great pride: What people said after getting the COVID-19 vaccine shot
India
Updated: Saturday, January 16, 2021, 17:15 [IST]
New Delhi, Jan 16: As India launched the world s largest vaccination drive against the coronavirus pandemic, showing the light at the end of a 10-month tunnel that upended millions of lives and livelihoods, here are some of the quotes from people who took the jab and ministers:
Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan: These vaccines are sanjivani in our fight against this pandemic. We have won the battles against polio and small pox. Now, we have reached the decisive phase of winning the war against coronavirus.
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI/CHENNAI: Loud applause and cheers rang out as the first jabs were administered to frontline workers at hospitals and healthcare centres across the country on Saturday at the start of the gargantuan Covid-19 vaccination exercise, hailed as a “momentous” occasion in India s fight against the pandemic. This is the beginning of a final war, said Dr Naveen Thacker, a paediatrician and member of the Gujarat government s task force on coronavirus, after receiving the first vaccine in the state.
Vaccination rooms were decorated with flowers and balloons, the first beneficiaries were welcomed with aarti , garlands and sweets, and people posed with victory signs after receiving the shots as a sense of hope prevailed over the months of anxiety and uncertainty as well as any apprehensions about the vaccines.
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After disrupting people s lives across the world, it appears that the world is finally seeing some hope with the beginning of vaccination drives. As India launched the world s largest vaccination drive against the coronavirus pandemic, showing the light at the end of a 10-month tunnel that upended millions of lives and livelihoods, here are some of the quotes from people who took the jab and ministers:
V-Day: Thousands get first jabs as India rolls out Covid-19 inoculation programme
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January 16, 2021
Covishield and Covaxin vaccines shots being administered at medical centres Thousands of healthcare and sanitary workers at the frontline of India’s Covid-19 battle got their first jabs on Saturday as Prime Minister Narendra Modi rolled out 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.
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.