Coronavirus Vaccination in India LIVE Updates: The world's biggest inoculation programme against the novel coronavirus infection begins on Saturday as India starts vaccinating its high-risk healthcare workers. The vaccination drive has been planned in a phased manner, identifying priority groups. The first phase of India's coronavirus vaccination drive will start at 11 am across several cities in India. The coronavirus vaccination drive will be launched by PM Narendra Modi at 10:30 am via video conferencing. A total of 3,006 session sites across all states and UTs will be virtually connected during the launch and around 100 beneficiaries will be vaccinated at each session site on the first day. Stay with India Today to catch LIVE news updates on the world's largest vaccination drive against the coronavirus which begins today.
1342 Unprecedented: The Central and state governments are grappling with the gigantic task of administering the Covid vaccines. PTI
Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr
Senior Journalist
The sense of relief and euphoria felt by the people and the Modi government over the availability of Covid-19 vaccines at the beginning of the new year is understandable after the long lockdown of 2020 and the mental and physical stress it caused all round. The Central and state governments are now grappling with the gigantic task of administering the vaccines manufactured by Pune-based Serum Institute of India (SII) and Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech. There are going to be hurdles and glitches as the operation unfolds, but the sense of helplessness is gone. With the vaccines at hand, the hospitals and the frontline health workers with auxiliary support from the administration at all levels can succeed in immunising a large section of the population during the year.
Coronavirus | Vaccine dilemma to take or not to take Covaxin
Updated:
Updated:
January 15, 2021 20:41 IST
Is it ethical to offer one healthcare worker the Covaxin whose efficacy is unknown and another healthcare worker the Covishield whose efficacy is known even though both face the same risk of infection at work?
Share Article
AAA
A medic fills a syringe with COVAXIN before administering it to a health worker during its trials, at the Gujarat Medical Education and Research Society in Ahmedabad on November 26, 2020.
| Photo Credit:
Reuters
Is it ethical to offer one healthcare worker the Covaxin whose efficacy is unknown and another healthcare worker the Covishield whose efficacy is known even though both face the same risk of infection at work?