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India to start coronavirus vaccination drive next week

  • 09 Jan 2021
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India will start its coronavirus vaccination drive from January 16 with priority given to about 30 million healthcare and frontline workers, a government statement said on Saturday.

India plans to vaccinate 300 million people in the first half of 2021. Shots could start getting distributed as early as next week.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi reviewed the preparedness for COVID-19 vaccination on Saturday, it said.

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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks to the media. File photo

The country, with the highest number of infections in the world after the United States, is developing two indigenous COVID-19 vaccines.

“The world is not only waiting for India’s vaccines but is also keenly watching how India handles the world’s biggest vaccination program,” Modi said in an annual address to the overseas Indians.

 “Being the biggest pharmacy of the world, India had supplied medicines to the needy across the globe in the past and it is doing it today as well.”

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