Sanitation workers, top doctors take the first few jabs
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No report of any major adverse event so far
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No report of any major adverse event so far
Sanitation and ‘D’ Group workers were the first ones to be inoculated in each of the 243 centres where vaccination began on Saturday.
While 41-year-old Chandrashekar Rao, a cook in the canteen of K.C. General Hospital, was the first one to take the jab in the State, Nagaratna K., 28, a ward attendant at Victoria hospital, received the vaccine in the presence of Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa, Union Minister Pralhad Joshi and Health and Medical Education Minister K. Sudhakar.
Vaccination drive conducted at seven centres in Dharwad
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From Monday it will be conducted at 70 centres in the district
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From Monday it will be conducted at 70 centres in the district
After Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the nationwide vaccination drive on Saturday through a video link from New Delhi, the Karnataka Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS) in Hubballi, which was the lone centre in north Karnataka to be chosen for two-way communication during the PM’s nationwide address, too hosted a formal launch programme.
After watching the live telecast of the PM’s address, Minister for Large and Medium Industries and district in charge Jagadish Shettar inaugurated the historic programme and said that with the launch of the vaccination, Mr. Modi was leading the country in the fight against the pandemic. “It is an indeed a moment of pride for the country as the scientists of the country had taken up the challenge and developed the vaccin