Coronavirus India Live Updates: 6.31 lakh beneficiaries vaccinated; Centre cites ‘vaccine hesitancy’

Hospital workers ready for beneficiaries of Covid-19 vaccine at a vaccination centre in Sector 45, Chandigarh on Tuesday. (Express photograph by Kamleshwar SIngh)
Meanwhile, India will formally start its vaccine diplomacy on Wednesday by supplying Made-in-India Covid-19 vaccines to its neighbouring and key companion international locations.
Bhutan and Maldives would be the first to get the vaccines from Wednesday, adopted by Bangladesh, Nepal, Myanmar and Seychelles. Sri Lanka, Afghanistan and Mauritius can even get doses as soon as they provide crucial regulatory approvals.
A consignment containing 1 lakh doses of Covishield vaccines will attain Male on January 20. With this, Maldives, together with Bhutan, will develop into the primary recipient of the Indian authorities’s present, manufactured by the Serum Institute of India (SII).