Covid-19 vaccines safe, healthcare workers have no reason to doubt: Govt

Healthcare workers must endorse the inoculation, declining will be matter of sadness: Government officials

With more than 630,000 vaccinated within the first four days of the drive in India — the fastest in the world in doing so — the government strongly urged health care workers to shed hesitancy and come forward to take the jab in order to create a Covid-proof health care system and achieve vaccine-induced herd immunity. 

“The whole world is clamouring for a vaccine. If we still decline, it would be a matter of sadness... I will urge them (health care workers) to endorse the vaccine. We have to start non-Covid services; those who are fortunate to receive the vaccine should