India, Jan. 16 -- The vaccination will be staggered over three phases with health and frontline workers and people of 50 to get the shot first
The vaccination drive against the deadly novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) began in Bihar January 16, 2021 in the presence of senior government officials.
Officials said around 30,000 health workers would be vaccinated on the first day of the vaccination drive that began in 300 centres spread across 38 districts of the state.
Some doctors expressed doubts over the efficacy of Covaxin, manufactured by Bharat Biotech International Ltd. "We are apprehensive about its efficacy. I am not going to get the vaccine," a doctor from Patna-based Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences (IGIMS) told thi...