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Here comes the vaccine! A decisive phase in India's fight against Covid
A massive pan-India inoculation drive against Covid-19 is set in process. Doses of the Covishield vaccine were dispatched to 13 cities across India from Pune and taken to designated national and state-level stores amid tight security. With the vaccinations scheduled to begin on January 16 starting with healthcare and frontline workers in the first phase, the Centre said all the vaccine vials -- 11 million of Covishield from the Serum Institute of India and 5.5 million of Covaxin from Bharat Biotech -- will be received by January 14. There is a slogan printed on each box of Serum's vaccine, "May all be free from disease". Well, we also wish the same for the world's biggest rollout. Watch the video to know about all the developments related to vaccine