Consider aviation workers as priority for vaccination: Aviation secretary

Nearly 8 million people applied for vaccination in three hours on the first day of registrations

Workers in the aviation sector should be considered for Covid-19 vaccination on a priority basis after health workers have been given the jabs, the civil aviation ministry has told the Union health ministry.
 
During the first phase of vaccination, the list of frontline workers included personnel from the armed forces, prison staff, municipal workers, among others, but not aviation-sector employees.
 
Tuhin Kanta Pandey, secretary in the civil aviation ministry, in a letter to chief secretaries of states, has asked for workers involved in aviation services to be considered on priority during the next phase of vaccination, which starts