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Media Fact-Check

As India starts world’s largest COVID vaccination drive, media organisations resort to spreading lies and fear

Jinit Jain - 18 January, 2021

Several media organisations have published headlines that alluded the ward boy who died of heart attack in Moradabad, had lost his life because of COVID-19 vaccine

OpIndia Explains

The vaccine diplomacy: The next battleground between India and China to dominate the global COVID-19 vaccine requirements

Jinit Jain - 18 January, 2021

With apprehensions surrounding Chinese vaccines swelling, India has taken a lead in helping the world to combat coronavirus with its indigenously developed COVID-19 vaccines

News Reports

West Bengal: TMC’s Katwa MLA, others take coronavirus vaccine out of turn

OpIndia Staff - 17 January, 2021

As a result of the high-handedness of the ruling Trinamool Congress party, a nurse from Bardhaman Medical College lamented that she was not vaccinated

News Reports

On Day 1 of the COVID-19 vaccination drive, 1.65 lakh beneficiaries vaccinated across 3,351 sites in India

OpIndia Staff - 16 January, 2021

PM Modi launched the world's biggest COVID-19 vaccination drive in the country today at 10:30 am via video conferencing

Government and Policy

Watch: Sanitation worker Manish Kumar becomes the first person to receive Coronavirus vaccine at AIIMS Delhi

Jinit Jain - 16 January, 2021

PM Modi on Saturday flagged off India's Coronavirus vaccine drive, the biggest immunisation exercise in the world

News Reports

As India rolls out the Coronavirus vaccine drive, health workers break out in cheer: Watch video

OpIndia Staff - 16 January, 2021

Health workers at Coronavirus vaccine centres cheered as the vaccines reached there ahead of the launch of vaccination programme.

Government and Policy

India starts Coronavirus vaccine drive: Here is a list of those who would first get the much-awaited vaccine

Dibakar Dutta - 16 January, 2021

As India rolls out Coronavirus vaccine drive today, the country will eagerly watch the first group of healthcare workers, who will receive the vaccine

News Reports

Vaccine not to be administered to people below 18 years, pregnant and lactating women kept out of COVID vaccination drive

OpIndia Staff - 15 January, 2021

Earlier, Covaxin was approved for children above 12, while SII's Covishield was approved for persons above 18. The new order states that Covaxin will also be administered only to persons above 18.

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