From Our Special Correspondent
Daijiworld Media Network

Bengaluru, Jan 16: Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) ward sanitation worker, 28-year-old Nagarathna, became the first recipient of the vaccine for COVID 19 pandemic in Bengaluru when she was administered the dose at Victoria Hospital on Saturday morning.

Nagarathna was among the Health Warriors who had tirelessly worked during the COVID 19 pandemic period.

The others who were administered the vaccine in Bengaluru in the presence of Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa are: COOVID health warriors Gangadhr, Dr Sushant (35), Keerthi (28), Mala (30), Lokesh G (28), Vishnupriya (24), Varun Kumar (26) and Dr Sandesh Kandavala (32).

Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa presented a flower bouquet to all the COVID health warriors, who became the first set of volunteers to receive the vaccine in the city.

The Chief Minister later released a special philatelic stamp to mark the launch of the world’s largest COVID 19 vaccine administering campaign in India.

Apart from the Chief Minister, Union Minister for Parliamentary Affairs and Coal and Mining Prahlad Joshi, State Health and Family Welfare Minister Dr K Sudhakar, BJP MP P C Mohan and other dignitaries were present during the administering of the vaccine at the Victoria Hospital in Bengaluru.

Karnataka has received 8,14,500 doses of the vaccine to be administered in the first phase at select centres in the State. The vaccine beneficiaries are to receive two doses of 0.5 ml each with the second dose to be administered 28 days after the first dose.

A total of 24,300 health workers across 243 sites in the State have been selected for the vaccine.

As many as 11 health facilities including six in BBMP limits and 5 in Bengaluru urban district have been selected for administering the COVID vaccines.