Ratan Tata takes first shot of COVID-19 vaccine Veteran industrialist Ratan Tata hoped everyone can be immunised and protected soon from the coronavirus pandemic, having got himself vaccinated. Mr. Tata in a social media post praised the process of vaccination, describing it as "effortless and painless". "Very thankful to have gotten my first vaccination shot today. It was effortless and painless," he said. Vaccine 20 lakh jabs on Friday, highest so far: Govt The Health Ministry said on Saturday that more than 20 lakh vaccine doses against the coronavirus were administered across the country the previous day, the highest single-day count so far As many as 16,39,663 beneficiaries were vaccinated for the first dose – healthcare workers (HCWs) and frontline workers (FLWs) – and 4,13,874 such people received the second shot.