COVID-19 vaccination drive: Preps at full throttle for vaccine roll-out from January 16; check out details Ahead of the nationwide roll-out of COVID-19 vaccine, states have made all necessary preparations, including identifying vaccination sites and registration of healthcare and other frontline workers BusinessToday.In | January 11, 2021 | Updated 09:38 IST In the first phase of the world's largest inoculation programme, three crore healthcare and frontline workers will be vaccinated India is all set to kickstart its mega vaccination drive against coronavirus on January 16, prioritising around 30 million healthcare and frontline workers in the first phase. Ahead of the mega drive across India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold a virtual meeting with all the Chief Ministers of all states on Monday, January 11, to discuss the pandemic situation and the vaccination roll-out in the country.