India Launches World's Largest COVID Vaccination Drive (VIDEO)
SHOW TRANSCRIPT India kicked off its national COVID-19 vaccination campaign, starting with health care workers on Saturday. The government initially plans to vaccinate 300 million people in the country of nearly 1.4 billion people. Its first priority for the vaccine will be some 30 million doctors, nurses and other front-line workers. "I'm feeling like hopeful, like 2021 will give us better days to go ahead," said Roshan Mathew, a doctor at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. The next phase of vaccinations will target some 270 million people who are 50 or older or have ...