{"id":26900,"date":"2021-01-16T17:57:01","date_gmt":"2021-01-16T08:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/16\/india-begins-worlds-biggest-covid-vaccination-programme"},"modified":"2021-01-16T17:57:01","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T08:57:01","slug":"india-begins-worlds-biggest-covid-vaccination-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=26900","title":{"rendered":"India begins world&#8217;s biggest Covid vaccination programme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Country of 1.3 billion people hopes to vaccinate 300 million citizens by August<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>India has begun one of the world\u2019s biggest Covid-19 vaccination programmes, the first major developing country to roll out the vaccine and marking the beginning of an effort to immunise more than 1.3 billion people.<\/p>\n<p>The first dose was administered to a health worker at All India Institute of Medical Sciences in the capital, New Delhi, after the prime minister, Narendra Modi, kickstarted the campaign with a nationally televised speech.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/16\/india-begins-worlds-biggest-covid-vaccination-programme\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Country of 1.3 billion people hopes to vaccinate 300 million citizens by AugustCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageIndia has begun one of the world\u2019s biggest Covid-19 vaccination programmes, the first major developing country to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1823,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1066,62,433,565,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-india","category-narendra-modi","category-vaccines-and-immunisation","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1823"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26900"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26911,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26900\/revisions\/26911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}