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The world's largest vaccination campaign: India has started vaccinating its 1.4 billion inhabitants
The country, which houses the vaccines manufacturers Astraznica and Biontech, has begun vaccinating the 30 million medical staff members against Corona - with the opening of one of the world's most complex operations.
After the medical teams, the 270 million in the risk groups will be vaccinated
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Saturday, 16 January 2021, 11:51
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Medical teams begin vaccinations.
Corona patient treated at a hospital in Bahagalpur, India (Photo: Reuters)
India, which has a population of 1.4 billion, today (Saturday) began vaccinating the country's 30 million health workers and launched its largest vaccination campaign against the world.
The developing country has joined the ranks of the richer countries, where the operation is already in full swing.
Although India has some of the largest vaccine manufacturers in the world, its vaccination campaign is extremely complex.
Indian authorities aim to vaccinate some 300 million people, about the population of the United States and significantly more than its previous plan aimed at 26 million babies.
Under the current plan, once they have finished vaccinating the millions of medical staff members, the vaccination of 270 million people aged 50 and over and the rest of the populations at risk will begin.
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Launch of Vaccine Campus, India - Photo: Reuters
For the workers who will strengthen the shaky health system in India throughout the epidemic, the vaccines ensure that life can return to its normal state.
Many of them explode with pride.
"I'm excited I'm among the first to get the vaccine," said nurse Gita Dewey, lifting her left sleeve to get the shot.
"I am happy to receive a vaccine made in India, and that we do not have to depend on others for it," said Dewey, who treated patients around the plague at a hospital in Lokanov, the capital of the state of Uttar Pradesh in the heart of India.
The first batch was given to a sanitation worker at the Indian Institute of Medical Sciences in the capital, New Delhi, after Prime Minister Narendra Modi opened the operation with a televised speech.
"We are launching the largest vaccination campaign in the world and it is showing the world our capabilities," Moody said.
Later in his speech, he urged citizens to keep them safe and not to believe in "rumors about the safety of vaccines."
However, unlike other leaders in the world who are first vaccinated to boost confidence in vaccines, 70-year-old Modi did not receive the vaccine himself and his government said politicians would not be given priority in the first phase of the operation.
"Shows to the world our capabilities."
Corona vaccination campaign begins (Photo: Reuters)
The Indian health system did not specify what percentage of the 1.4 billion inhabitants would be vaccinated during the operation.
But experts say it will almost certainly grow the most in the world.
The huge scale has its obstacles.
India, for example, plans to rely primarily on digital means to track shipments and vaccinations, but public health experts point out that the internet remains very slow in large parts of the country.
According to the Ministry of Health, about 100 people are to be vaccinated during the day in each of the 3,006 centers across the country.
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