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India will start its Covid-19 vaccination drive from January 16 with priority given to about 30 million healthcare and frontline workers, a government statement said on Saturday.
India hopes to inoculate 300 million of its 1.35 billion people free of charge in the first six to eight months of this year.
With the highest number of infections in the world after the United States, India is developing two indigenous Covid-19 vaccines.
