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India kicked off its national COVID-19 vaccination campaign, starting with health care workers on Saturday.
The government initially plans to vaccinate 300 million people in the country of nearly 1.4 billion people. Its first priority for the vaccine will be some 30 million doctors, nurses and other front-line workers. I m feeling like hopeful, like 2021 will give us better days to go ahead, said Roshan Mathew, a doctor at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi.
The next phase of vaccinations will target some 270 million people who are 50 or older or have underlying health conditions.
India has some 3,000 vaccination centers across the country and plans to vaccine 100 people at each center on the first day of the campaign. The country has the world s second largest number of confirmed coronavirus cases, behind the U.S.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagged-off the first phase of the pan-India roll out of the COVID-19 vaccination drive at 10.30 a.m. via video conferencing.
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First shot of the COVID-19 vaccine was administered to a healthcare worker in the presence of Health Minister Harshavardhan at AIIMS, New Delhi.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagged-off the first phase of the pan-India roll out of the COVID-19 vaccination drive at 10.30 a.m. via video conferencing.
The world’s largest vaccination programme will begin at a total of 3,006 session sites across all the States and the Union Territories, which will be connected virtually throughout the exercise. Nearly 100 beneficiaries will receive the vaccine at each of the session sites on Saturday.