High Commission of India
Colombo
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Press Release
India leads from the front in the fight against
COVID-19 war-Press Release
Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the all-India rollout of COVID-19
vaccination drive on 16 January 2021 via video conferencing. Considered
to be the world’s largest vaccination program, it covers 30 million health care
and frontline programme workers across India in the first phase. The endeavor
is to cover 300 million in the second phase. Elderly population and those with
serious illness would be the focus groups in this phase.
2. A total of 3006 session sites were virtually connected
during the launch with around 100 beneficiaries being vaccinated at each
session site on the inaugural day. The massive vaccination programme is powered
by Co-WIN, an indigenously developed online digital platform, which will
facilitate real time information of vaccine stocks, storage temperature and
individualized tracking of beneficiaries. A dedicated 24x7 call centre
has also been established to deal with all issues pertaining to administration
of the vaccines.
3. Speaking at the launch, Prime Minister Modi highlighted
various steps undertaken by Government of India in combating COVD-19. India
released its first COVID-19 advisory on 17 January 2020 and was among the first
countries to start screening passengers at its airports. Specifically on
vaccines, he said that Indian vaccines were built on tried and tested
technology in India and added that these vaccines will give a decisive victory
to India in fighting the pandemic.
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Colombo
16 January 2021
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