Covid vaccination drive: AIIMS health worker first to get covid vaccine in India
A sanitation worker becomes the first person to receive COVID-19 vaccine jab at AIIMS.
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The COVID-19 vaccination drive began in India with a health worker from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences(AIIMS) becoming the first person in the country to get the covid-19 vaccine.
Doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers are first in the line to get the covid-19 vaccine.
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In Delhi, the COVID-19 vaccine rollout will span across 11 districts at 81 centres.
As many as six central government hospitals - AIIMS, Safdarjung Hospital, RML Hospital, Kalawati Saran Children Hospital and two ESI hospitals - are part of the vaccine drive.
Private facilities Max Hospital, Fortis Hospital, Apollo Hospital and Sir Ganga Ram Hospital are also part of the country-wide vaccine rollout.
New Delhi: As the nation-wide coronavirus
COVID-19 vaccination drive kicked-off on January 16, 2021, the All India Medical Institute (AIIMS) director Dr Randeep Guleria received a dose of the vaccine at the hospital in the presence of Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan.
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A healthcare worker is given the COVID-19 vaccine shot. Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa is also present at the site.
Vaccinators started inoculating healthcare and frontline workers simultaneously across many states of India, minutes after Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the country’s massive COVID-19 vaccination drive.
However, it was not immediately clear as to who was given the first COVID-19 vaccine dose in the country.
Manish Kumar, a sanitation worker, was the first to get the COVID-19 vaccine shot at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi. Union Health Minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan was also present at the session site. AIIMS Director Dr. Randeep Guleria also took the vaccine.
AIIMS Director Randeep Guleria and Niti Aayog member Vinod K. Paul, who heads a government panel on vaccine strategy, were on Saturday administered the first doze of Covid-19 vaccine with the launch of the world s largest vaccination programme .