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vaccine against cOvid-19

india

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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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