India launches one of worldâs biggest Covid-19 vaccination campaigns
By Reuters
By Krishna N. Das and Mayank Bhardwaj
New Delhi - Sanitation worker Manish Kumar became the first person in India to be vaccinated against Covid-19 on Saturday, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched one of the world s largest immunisation campaigns to bring the pandemic under control.
India is prioritising nurses, doctors and other frontline workers, and Modi had tears in his eyes as he addressed healthcare workers through video conferencing. The disease separated people from their families, kept mothers away from their children, and those who died of the disease couldn t even get a final goodbye from their families, Modi said.
Saturday, 16 Jan 2021 05:33 PM MYT
Healthcare workers wait to receive COVISHIELD, a Covd-19 vaccine manufactured by Serum Institute of India, during one of the world s largest Covid-19 vaccination campaigns at Mathalput Community Health Centre in Koraput district of the eastern state of Od
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NEW DELHI, Jan 16 India was set to begin one of the world’s largest coronavirus vaccination drives today as the pandemic spread at a record pace and global Covid-19 deaths surged past two million.
The World Health Organization has called for accelerating vaccine rollouts worldwide as well as ramping up efforts to study the sequencing of the virus, which has infected more than 93 million people globally since it was first detected in China in late 2019.