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A mid global surge in Covid cases, the Omicron variant and waning immunity, the rolling out of the third Covid vaccine shot came as a relief to over 930,000 beneficiaries who lined up on Monday for their precautionary dose after a long wait.
On Day One, 936,264 beneficiaries received their third shot of the vaccine, according to provisional data on CoWIN portal. Gujarat administered the maximum number of such doses (over 150,000), followed by Andhra Pradesh (over 112,000).
A visibly relieved N Ravishankar, a medical officer at Coimbatore government medical college who was one of the first to get the “booster dose”
