A cleaner, the first person to receive the Corona vaccine, in India

Indian sanitation worker Manish Kumar receives the vaccine (Reuters)

Hygiene worker Manish Kumar became the first person in India to receive the Corona vaccine today, Saturday, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi launching one of the largest vaccination campaigns in the world to contain the pandemic, according to Reuters.

India is giving priority to getting the vaccine to nurses, doctors and other frontline workers.

Modi spoke as he beat his tears to health workers in a video call.

He said, “The disease separated people from their families, and kept mothers away from their children.

Indeed, those who died due to illness were not able to get even a final farewell look from their families. ”

Modi, 70, did not announce whether he would receive the vaccine or not, but he said that politicians would not be considered among frontline workers.

India has set up 3006 vaccination centers for "Covid-19" vaccines across the country.

On the first day of the vaccination campaign, which the government says is the largest in the world, India aims to give the vaccine to 300,600 people.

India is the second largest country in the world in terms of population after China, with a population of nearly 1.4 billion, but the government says it will not work to give the vaccine to everyone in order to achieve societal immunity.

India, which has the second highest infection rate with the Corona virus after the United States, says it plans to vaccinate about 300 million doses of the vaccine during the period between the first six and eight months of this year.

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