Summary:
Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren launched the COVID vaccination drive in the state on Saturday, soon after Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the nationwide immunisation programme.
In Ranchi, Marium Gudia, a sanitation worker, was the first to receive the shot of Covishield at Sadar hospital in Ranchi.
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Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren launched the COVID vaccination drive in the state on Saturday, soon after Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the nationwide immunisation programme.
In Ranchi, Marium Gudia, a sanitation worker, was the first to receive the shot of Covishield at Sadar hospital in Ranchi.
Speaking to media after the launch, Hemant Soren said, "The country, after a long fight against this covid-19 pandemic, has finally got the anti-coronavirus vaccine.
Jharkhand too has received its doses.
I hope that the vaccine would prove to be a boon for citizens."
The chief minister said as per Centre`s guidelines, frontline and health care workers would get shots in the first phase.
"I personally oversaw the first dose administered to a woman sanitation worker.
The second beneficiary was a male doctor.
All precautions have been taken at vaccination centres.