India
oi-Vicky Nanjappa
New Delhi, Jan 14: Prime Minister will launch the vaccine drive against COVID-19 on Saturday. The PM is also likely to interact with some of the beneficiaries of the vaccine.
Around 3 lakh people will receive the shots on Saturday. The details are being worked out and the PM would begin the vaccination programme, reports said.
The vaccination drive will begin with 3,000 sites on Saturday and each centre would inoculate 100 people a day to start with.
Meanwhile, the National Polio immunisation programme, as part of which children in the age group of 0-5 years are administered polio drops, has been deferred “till further notice” by the Centre citing “unforeseen activities”.
The National Immunisation Day (NID), commonly known as Pulse Polio Immunisation programme, was scheduled for…