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PM Modi rolls out world’s largest vaccination drive for COVID-19
- India launched the much awaited, world’s largest COVID-19 vaccination programme.
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the programme through video conferencing.
- A total of 3006 session sites across all states and union territories will be virtually connected during the launch.
- In the first phase government and private sector health care workers, including Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) workers, will receive the vaccine.
- The drive aims to first inoculate millions of its healthcare and frontline workers and reach an estimated 3 crore people by the end of its first phase.
