The vaccination drive started inside the Parliament premises from 10 am and will continue till the Budget session concludes.
COVID-19 vaccination drive for all members of both Houses of Parliament started on Tuesday in Delhi. Members of the Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha will be administered the Covid vaccines. India’s inoculation drive is in phase two covering all aged over 60 years and those above 45 years suffering from comorbidities. The vaccination drive started inside the Parliament premises from 10 am and will continue till the Budget session concludes. The drive will be conducted between 10 am to 5 pm every day except Saturday and Sunday. All the parliamentarians have been informed about the drive and requested to visit the Covid-19 Centre near the reception office of Parliament's Annexe for their inoculation. Aimed to ensure the health of all parliamentarians, the Parliament adopted the move following other departments under the Centre beginning the drive to inoculate their employees meeting the criteria decided by the government in the ongoing phase of the vaccination. President Ram Nath Kovind, Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and various Union Cabinet Ministers, including Amit Shah, Harsh Vardhan, Narendra Singh Tomar have also received shots so far. India expanded its Covid-19 vaccine coverage on March 1 with Prime Minister Narendra Modi setting the pace by being the first person to take a jab. Thousands queued up at government and private medical facilities across the country as the country further opened its vaccination programme that started on January 16 for healthcare and sanitary workers. Indigenously developed Covaxin vaccine from Bharat Biotech and Covishield from the Oxford-AstraZeneca are being administered to people in India since the inoculation drive began.
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