Indian coronavirus vaccine

During a press meet held at the Ministry of Health and Population on Monday, Minister Hridayesh Tripathi said that the government was planning to set up 16,000 vaccination centers to inoculate citizens against COVID-19. He added that as many as 5,000 staff and 52,000 women health care volunteers would be mobilized for the vaccination program. […]

India will start its COVID-19 vaccination drive from Jan. 16 with priority given to about 30 million healthcare and frontline workers, a government statement said on Saturday. 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