India is launching its nationwide vaccine inoculation on January 16, which will be the world’s largest vaccination drive. Around 3 lakh healthcare workers will be administered vaccine shots at 2,934 sites across India on the first day of the nationwide COVID-19 vaccination drive, official sources said. Ahead of this, India has already had two rounds of vaccination dry runs to test the operational feasibility of its vaccination programme.
Government officials have said that the shots will be offered first to an estimated one crore healthcare workers, and around two crore frontline workers, and then to persons above 50 years of age, followed by persons younger than 50 years of age with associated comorbidities. The cost of vaccination of healthcare and frontline workers will be borne by the central government, officials had said.
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