‘If eligible, get your shot soon’: PM Narendra Modi receives second dose of Covid-19 vaccine

Prime Minister Narendra Modi Thursday obtained his second dose of coronavirus vaccine at Delhi’s premier All India Institutes of Medical Sciences. The prime minister was administered the primary dose of the covaxin on March 1.
“Got my second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at AIIMS today. Vaccination is among the few ways we have, to defeat the virus. If you are eligible for the vaccine, get your shot soon,” PM Modi tweeted and shared a hyperlink to the CoWin web site, a portal to register for the vaccine.

The two nurses who administered the vaccine to the prime minister as we speak are P. Niveda from Puducherry and Nisha Sharma from Punjab.

The vaccination drive was kicked off in January with healthcare employees and frontline employees getting inoculated first. It was adopted by the second part through which senior residents (above 60 years of age) and folks aged 45 or older with comorbidities have been eligible. In the third part, all these above 45 years are eligible.

With quickly rising coronavirus numbers within the final month, India is now grappling with the second wave of an infection. India detected 115,736 new circumstances of the novel coronavirus on Tuesday, the best to this point. Of the full, Maharashtra reported 55,469 circumstances whereas Chhattisgarh scaled a brand new peak of 9,921 circumstances. Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh and Delhi reported greater than 5,000 circumstances every.
Amid the rising variety of circumstances, many states have began pushing the Centre to produce extra vaccine doses and open up the vaccination course of to all people above the age of 18. However, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan, got here down closely on Maharashtra, Delhi and Punjab — the states contributing most to the second surge of Covid-19 circumstances — and stated they have been “trying to divert attention from their poor vaccination efforts by just continuously shifting the goalposts”.