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Heeraben, who is over 95 years old, lives with the PM's younger brother Pankaj Modi at Raysan village near Gandhinagar city.

So far, New Zealand's medical regulators have approved only the Pfizer vaccine and are reviewing two other shots.

COVAX is a global vaccine initiative run by a coalition that includes the Vaccine Alliance known as Gavi and World Health Organization (WHO).

The Oxford-AstraZeneca doses from COVAX will be for the most vulnerable persons above 60 years of age group in the most high-risk areas impacted by COVID-19.

India's total active caseload stands at 1.76 lakh (1,76,319) which comprises 1.58 per cent of India's total infections.

Vardhan revealed the information after interacting with the media after taking his vaccine shot at the Delhi Heart and Lung Institute.

The second phase of the nationwide Covid-19 vaccination drive for age-appropriate population groups began on Monday.

The Delhi Police has a strength of over 80,000 personnel.

"Although many people in rich countries will receive a vaccine for COVID-19 this year, many people in poor countries will likely have to wait years to get one".

The Covid-19 vaccines - Covaxin and Covishield, will be made available to the general public from today.

The massive inoculation drive against the Covid-19 disease in this phase was lead from the front on the day as Prime Minister Narendra Modi took the jab at AIIMS here earlier.

"Took my first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at AIIMS," PM Modi tweeted with his picture of receiving the jab.

The vaccinations began as South Korea reported another 406 new infections on Friday, bringing its total for the pandemic to 88,922, including 1,585 deaths.

Jane Malysiak, an 84-year-old World War II survivor, was the first Australian to receive a vaccine, according to The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC).

Oxford-AstraZeneca's Covishield is being manufactured by Pune-based Serum Institute.

The coronavirus has infected more than 109 million people and killed at least 2.4 million of them.

Covishield is the brand name for the AstraZeneca-Oxford University COVID-19 vaccine.

Under the current plan, about 20,000 front-line medical workers at hospitals in Japan will get their first shots beginning around Wednesday.

India is taking care of the domestic vaccine requirement first and based on that "giving vaccines to friendly countries," he said.

Faruqui said that the vaccination was safe and thousands of health workers were vaccinated so far