Covid Vaccines Are Sanjivani In Fight Against Pandemic: Health Minister Harsh Vardhan It s a historic day. We have been blessed by the prime minister all through our fight against Covid, said health minister at AIIMS hospital Suresh K Pandey Outlook Web Bureau 2021-01-16T13:57:33+05:30 Covid Vaccines Are Sanjivani In Fight Against Pandemic: Health Minister Harsh Vardhan outlookindia.com 2021-01-16T13:59:06+05:30
Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Saturday affirmed that the Covid vaccines are safe and termed them Sanjivani in the fight against the coronavirus infection. He requested people to ignore fake claims and instead believe in experts and scientists.
V-Day: Thousands get first jabs as India rolls out Covid-19 inoculation programme
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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.
Beginning of end of Covid-19 : PM Modi to launch world s biggest vaccine drive today - key updates
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said politicians will not be considered frontline workers.
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The vaccination drive will be launched by PM Modi soon, setting off the country on the path towards overcoming the Covid-19 pandemic
The Covid vaccination drive, covering the entire length and breadth of India, will inoculate 3 crore healthcare and frontline workers with two locally-manufactured shots
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India begins one of the world s largest Covid-19 vaccination programme on Saturday, hoping to end a pandemic that has killed 1,51,918 people in the country and ravaged the economy.
AIIMS Director Dr Randeep Guleria on Saturday joined scores of healthcare workers across the country who were administered Covid-19 vaccine shots on the first day of the nationwide vaccination drive. Dr Guleria said mild infection or adverse reaction after vaccination is a good sign because it shows the immune system of the body is reacting to the vaccine and creating antibodies.
Moments after Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the vaccination drive across the country, the jab was administered to the AIIMS chief on live telecast.
Dr Guleria was the third person to take the shot. The first jab was administered to a sanitation worker named Manish Kumar, who became the first to be vaccinated at AIIMS in the country.
80% Indians ready to take vaccines, more than UK, US: Harsh Vardhan cites survey
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Updated: Saturday, January 16, 2021, 15:23 [IST]
New Delhi, Jan 16: As India is ready to kick off the biggest vaccination drive, Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said that 80 per cent of Indians are ready to take coronavirus vaccines, quoting the survey figures of Edelman PR s Trust Barometer Survey 2021.
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According to the survey carried out in 28 countries, Indians have shown the maximum amount of trust in the coronavirus vaccines. India is followed by the UK (66 per cent), Germany (62 per cent), the US (59 per cent) and Russia (40 per cent).
The union minister tweeted this at a time when there have been some raised concerns about coronavirus vaccination in India claiming that the vaccines in India are less effective than the ones being given in other countries.