India's World Largest COVID-19 Vaccination Program Launched

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India's World Largest COVID-19 Vaccination Program Launched

Today on 16.1 2021 India has added one more weapon of vaccine to fight COVID-19 spread in this COVID-19 Pandemic war in our Prime Minister Modi era.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi started the first phase of the Pan-India roll out of the COVID-19 vaccination drive on January 16 at 10:30 a.m. via video conference.

The world’s largest COVID-19 vaccination programme in a total of 3006 session sites across all States/UTs will be connected virtually throughout the exercise. Around 100 beneficiaries will be vaccinated at each of the session sites. A dedicated 24x7 call centre — 1075 — has also been established for addressing the queries related to the pandemic, vaccine rollout as well as the Covid Vaccine Intelligence Network (CoWIN) software information.

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16 January 2021

M.A. Aleem

Emeritus Professor of Neurology * Visiting Specialist in Neurology ** Consultant Neurologist ***

The Tamilnadu Dr.M.G.R. Medical University * Dhanalakshami Srinivasan Medical College ** ABC Hospital ***

Chennai 600032* Perambalure 621212** Trichy 620018*** Tamilnadu India

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