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7692 Aditi Tandon Tripta Vasudev is not particularly vaccine sceptic, but she would rather wait for the first wave of Covid-19 vaccinations to be over before volunteering for a shot. “How do we know the vaccines are safe? All our lives we have been told it takes years to develop safe vaccines. Now two have been approved in less than a year of the Covid-19 outbreak. I have my worries,” says the 62-year-old, who falls in the priority group that the Centre has listed for initial rounds of the Covid-19 inoculation to be rolled out beginning January 16. Unaddressed issues The first set of dry ...

India News: The initial batches of Covid-19 vaccines, likely to be used beginning January 16, will have to be used or discarded within four hours of the vials — e

India will start vaccinating its people against Covid-19 from January 16 in the world's biggest inoculation exercise. The vaccination drive, in a country of 1.35 billion people -- of whom over 1.4 crore people have been infected by the virus -- will give priority to healthcare and other frontline workers, estimated to be around three crore in number, followed by those above 50

India News: With the government set to rollout the Covid vaccination drive next week, many across the country, especially in the healthcare workforce, are waiting

Message on phone to be ticket to immunity SECTIONS Share Synopsis While the government has automatically registered healthcare and frontline workers on Co-WIN, others in the priority population groups will be able to register themselves with required identification documents for vaccination, once the app is launched. Agencies The software solution was rigorously tested during the vaccination mock drills to ensure operational feasibility of Co-WIN in large-scale use. (This story originally appeared in on Jan 07, 2021)NEW DELHI: With the government set to rollout the Covid vaccination drive n...