A volunteer registers for a vaccine during a nationwide trial of Covid-19 jab delivery systems at a temporary vaccination centre in New Delhi on January 8. Photo: Reuters
A volunteer registers for a vaccine during a nationwide trial of Covid-19 jab delivery systems at a temporary vaccination centre in New Delhi on January 8. Photo: Reuters

Coronavirus: Indians cheer, pray as vaccines ‘like gold’ arrive for massive immunisation drive

  • Health workers will be some of the first to receive the jabs in the first phase, which aims to inoculate some 300 million people starting from Saturday
  • But observers say the real test will only come later, once the vaccine roll-out reaches the hundreds of millions of Indians not living in big cities

A volunteer registers for a vaccine during a nationwide trial of Covid-19 jab delivery systems at a temporary vaccination centre in New Delhi on January 8. Photo: Reuters
A volunteer registers for a vaccine during a nationwide trial of Covid-19 jab delivery systems at a temporary vaccination centre in New Delhi on January 8. Photo: Reuters
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