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BIG STORY                                                               JANUARY 15, 2021  |       The Indian Eye                          4





          vaccine against cOvid-19

                                         india











                                     first!















           the narendra Modi government launches the world’s biggest vaccination program.

                    amid rumors about the efficacy of vaccine and concerns about its price,
                                 doctors try to convince 1.3 billion people to take the jab




        Our Bureau
        New Delhi

               hey are calling it the
               world’s biggest vaccina-
        Ttion operation against
        Covid-19. The challenge is huge.
        The logistics involved are mas-
        sive. India seems to rising for
        the challenge, though there are
        some degree of doubts about
        the vaccines.
            On Saturday, Prime Minis-
        ter  Narendra  Modi  launched
        one of the world’s biggest coro-
        navirus vaccine programs. The
        vaccination program aimed at
        inoculating 3 crore (30 million)
        health and other frontline work-
        ers first, will use shots manufac-
        tured in India - one developed
        by Oxford University and As-             A medic administers the first dose of COVID-19 vaccine to a frontline worker at Government Girls School,
        traZeneca, the other by Bharat                                     Wazirabad village, in Gurugram on Saturday. (ANI)
        Biotech with the country’s top       At least, the government is pro- son to receive the vaccine. Ad-         work as a ‘sanjeevani’ in the
        clinical research body.              jecting the program like that.  dressing the media, he said that         fight against COVID-19, which
            Health workers, people over
        50 and those deemed at high-risk     The Indian vaccine will work as  misinformation is being spread          has entered the final stage,” Dr
        are prioritized to receive one of    ‘sanjeevani’ in the fight against  about the vaccines and urged          Harsh Vardhan said.
        the two approved vaccines. On        COVID-19, said Union Health  the media to help in dispelling                 He later held up a dose
        day one around 300,000 people        Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan.  the rumors.                                  of COVAXIN developed by
                                                                                                                      Bharat Biotech to the media.
                                             The Minister joined the doctors
                                                                                     “I am very happy and satis-
        received the first of two doses.     and  potential  vaccine  benefi- fied today. We have been fight-             Meanwhile, Chief Ministers
            Authorities say they are         ciaries at the All-India Institute  ing against COVID-19 under           of several states attended the
        drawing on their experience          of Medical Sciences (AIIMS),  Prime  Minister  Narendra  Mo-             launch of the vaccination drive
        with elections and child immu-
        nization programmes for polio        New Delhi, to witness the launch  di’s leadership for the last one       at government hospitals in their
        and tuberculosis in rolling out      of the nationwide COVID-19  year. With help of doctors and               respective states.
                                                                                                                          Andhra Pradesh Chief Min-
        the vaccine.                         vaccination, where a sanitation  scientists, we have an Indian           ister YS Jaganmohan Red-
                                             worker  becomes  the  first  per- vaccine now, this vaccine will
            It is India’s moment of pride.                                                                               Continued on next page... >>


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