Around 1,800 health workers have been selected for inoculation on Saturday, the officials said. Today is a big day for us. It seems we are slowly coming out of the pandemic, which has claimed so many lives. We were in a state of depression for the last one year. From today, we will again relive our lives, Urban Development Minister Firhad Hakim said.
Hakim said Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will hold a virtual meeting with officials at 1 pm to monitor the vaccination process.
Around 90,000 frontline health workers at government and private hospitals have been enrolled for the first phase in West Bengal.