Coronavirus vaccination: A medic administers first dose of Covishield vaccine to a frontline worker.
New Delhi:
India begins today a nationwide vaccination drive against the novel coronavirus launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The drive aims to first inoculate millions of its healthcare and frontline workers and reach an estimated 3 crore people by the end of its first phase.
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A total of 3006 session sites across all states and union territories will be virtually connected during the launch. Around 100 beneficiaries will be vaccinated at each session site on the inaugural day, the union health ministry has said.
In the first phase government and private sector health care workers including Integrated Child Development Services(ICDS) workers, will receive the vaccine in the first phase.
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Launching India s Covid-19 vaccination drive via video conference, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said that it s important to take two doses of vaccines. Don t make the mistake of taking one dose and then forgetting about dose two. Listen to the experts about the gap to be kept, PM Modi said.
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