The ministry of health and family welfare has warned citizens against downloading fake CoWIN apps that are doing the rounds on app stores.Nearly 3 crore healthcare and frontline workers will be inoculated during the initial phase of COVID-19 vaccination drive
PM to virtually inaugurate vaccination drive on January 16
January 15, 2021
3-lakh healthcare workers to get shot on Day 1
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday will kick off the world’s largest Covid-19 vaccination campaign in India with two domestically manufactured vaccines that have been given emergency approval, keeping the pandemic in view.
As per the Health Ministry plans, Modi will virtually launch the vaccination drive that would see close to 3-lakh healthcare workers across the country getting the first dose of Covid-19 vaccine against the highly-infectious SARS-CoV2 virus. The Ministry said, as many as 3,006 vaccine session sites each inoculating around 100 beneficiaries each would be in operation on the first day. The number of sites would be ramped up subsequently to cover more people.
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Health workers prepare for the COVID-19 vaccination drive for frontline health workers at a government Hospital in Mumbai, India. On Jan 16, India will start the massive undertaking of inoculating an estimated 30 million doctors, nurses and other front line workers, before attention turns to around 270 million people who are either aged over 50 or have co-morbidities.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday will kick start the world s largest vaccination drive against coronavirus, almost a year after India reported the first case of the deadly infectious disease, which has claimed over 1.5 lakh lives in the country till now. It is going to be a historic moment with the commencement of the eagerly-awaited vaccination drive against the dreaded disease.
NEW DELHI – Almost a year after reporting the first case of the deadly coronavirus, which has claimed over 1.5 lakh lives in India till now, the country is set
City all set for first day of inoculation drive
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First dose of vaccine to be administered to 100 persons each at 81 sites
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Red carpet being laid out at the vaccination site in Rajiv Gandhi Super Speciality Hospital in Delhi on Friday.
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First dose of vaccine to be administered to 100 persons each at 81 sites
From showering flower petals on vaccine boxes reaching the hospitals to posters reading “COVID-19 vaccine is safe” and a hand-picked list of 100 persons who would be administered the first dose at each of the 81 sites, Delhi is all geared up for Saturday, the first day of the vaccine roll-out.