Coronavirus Vaccination in Mumbai; Shiv Sena MLA Dr. Deepak Sawant and wife becomes first to be vaccinated

Over the past year, the terror of the corona virus has devastated the lives of many, the lockdown has taken a heavy toll on the economy, researchers have been working day and night to eradicate the corona outbreak, and their efforts have been truly successful today.

Corona vaccination has started in the country from today and health workers and paramedical staff are being vaccinated against corona. In the first phase, health department officials and employees will be vaccinated. In the second phase, sanitation workers, senior citizens were vaccinated.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi thanked all the people of the country for launching the largest vaccination campaign in the world, adding that the cost of vaccination of health workers, security personnel and police would be borne by the central government.

The COVID-19 vaccination drive began in Maharashtra on Saturday along with the rest of the country. Dr Ranjit Mankeshwar, Dean, JJ Hospital, in Mumbai and Dr Padmaja Saraf were among the first beneficiaries to receive the vaccine shots in Mumbai and at Jalna civil hospital, respectively.

The inoculation drive is taking place at 285 centres in Maharashtra where 100 healthcare workers will be administered the shots in a day, and cover 28,500 workers, an official said.

The state has received 9.63 lakh doses of Covishield vaccine and 20,000 doses of Covaxin vaccine, which have been distributed to all the districts.

Meanwhile, in the first phase of Corona vaccine, former state health minister and Shiv Sena leader Dr. Deepak Sawant and his wife Anila Sawant got their first vaccination at Cooper Hospital. (Photo - Datta Khedekar)

BJP workers in Maharashtra celebrated and burned an effigy of coronavirus in Ghatkopar area of Mumbai as the first phase of COVID-19 vaccination drive begins.

Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray inaugurated the vaccination center at BKC in Mumbai. Maharashtra has the highest number of corona patients. In the first phase, 9 lakh 63 thousand vaccines have been provided to Maharashtra.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched nation-wide COVID-19 vaccination drive via video conference today and almost three lakh beneficiaries, belonging to the priority groups, will be administered the silver bullet at over 3,006 vaccination sites across the country. Around 100 beneficiaries will be vaccinated at each session site.