Frontline workers to get covid vaccine starting early Feb: Health Ministry

In a move that could accelerate India’s vaccination drive against Covid-19, the government has asked states to start vaccinating frontline workers alongside health workers from the first week of February, the health ministry confirmed. India had planned to vaccinate 10 million health and 20 million frontline workers as part of the first phase of vaccine roll-out.

So far more than 3.3 million health care workers have been vaccinated across the country. Inclusion of frontline would mean that police personnel, home guards, municipal workers would soon be able to get the jab.