Instead of crowding a vaccination room, relatives and friends accompanying the persons who are being inoculated against Covid-19, should instead wait outside and greet them with a flower, Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting Prakash .
Hospital worker gets first coronavirus vaccine dose in Goa
The vaccination drive began in the morning at seven different centres, including two private hospitals, in the state.
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PANAJI: A hospital worker became the first person in Goa to receive the coronavirus vaccine on Saturday, health officials said.
Ranganath Bhojje, a worker at the Goa Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) near here, was the first to receive the vaccine dose in the coastal state, an official said.
The vaccination drive began in the morning at seven different centres, including two private hospitals, in the state.
V-Day: Healthcare workers get first jabs amid cheers
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Last Updated: Sat, Jan 16th, 2021, 15:56:57hrs
New Delhi: Healthcare workers at the frontline of India s COVID-19 battle got their first jabs on Saturday with Prime Minister Narendra Modi launching 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 and livelihoods.
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.
Union minister Shripad Naik is recovering well and his wounds were healing, a health bulletin from the Goa Medical College and Hospital said on Saturday.