Modi, who is 70, got the shot at New Delhi’s All India Institute of Medical Science. Of the 10 million health care workers that the government had initially wanted to immunize, only 6.6 million have gotten the first shot and 2.4 million have gotten both. Of its estimated 20 million front-line workers like police or sanitation workers, only 5.1 million have been vaccinated so far. If health workers are reticent, “you seriously think that the common public is going to walk up for the vaccine?” she said. Image: In this photo provided by Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi’s twitter handle, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is administered a COVID-19 vaccine in New Delhi, India, Monday, March 1, 2021.

Source: Egypt Independent March 01, 2021 04:07 UTC