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First phase of Covid vaccination drive off to a smooth start in Bengaluru

Over 700,000 people to be vaccinated within a week in Karnataka

First phase of Covid vaccination drive off to a smooth start in Bengaluru
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The Bangalore Medical College campus has 11 vaccination centres where more than 6,000 people will be vaccinated within 10 days.

Samreen Ahmad Bengaluru
The Victoria hospital at the Bangalore Medical College was the centre of action in the tech city as the vaccination drive kicked off in the state on Saturday.

After the rush hour at 11.30 am when Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa along with Health and Medical Education Minister K Sudhakar among others visited the vaccination centre, it was mostly business as usual at the hospital with patients waiting in queues for medical consultations at the hospital. The inauguration day witnessed 34 frontline healthcare professionals getting jabbed with the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine Covishield. They were greeted with roses after the vaccination process

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