
India begins world's biggest Covid vaccine drive
Health and frontline workers are first in line for jabs at vaccination centers across the country.
Health and frontline workers are first in line for jabs at vaccination centers across the country.
Prime Minister Modi will launch the pan-India rollout of the COVID-19 vaccination drive on January 16 at 10:30 AM via video conferencing, the PMO said.
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Indian airlines started delivering batches of COVID-19 vaccines nationwide on Tuesday, preparing for the launch of a campaign to offer shots to 1.3 billion people, in what officials call the world’s biggest vaccination drive.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is holding a meeting with chief ministers of all states to review the Covid-19 vaccine rollout plan set to begin this week.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi reviewed the preparedness for COVID-19 vaccination programme on Saturday, it said. India hopes to inoculate 300 million of its 1.35 billion people free of charge in the first six to eight months of this year.
Healthcare workers to get priority.
The country’s drugs regulator gave emergency authorization for the vaccine developed by Oxford University and U.K.-based drugmaker AstraZeneca, and another developed by the Indian company Bharat Biotech.