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India begins vaccination campaign

16/01/2021 GMT

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India hopes to offer 300 million people a coronavirus jab in the coming months

India hopes to offer 300 million people a coronavirus jab in the coming months.

India has begun one of the world's most extensive vaccination campaigns. The government hopes to innoculate 300 million people in the coming months, starting with frontline health workers.  

Also in the programme: More on clashes in Ethiopia and should professional footballers be hugging during a pandemic?

Joining Paul Henley to discuss these and other issues are Cristina Odone, journalist, novelist and head of the Family Policy Unit at the Centre for Social Justice and Remi Adekoya, a Polish-Nigerian writer and politics lecturer at the University of York.

(Picture: Indian top officials stand near the boxes containing Covid-19 vaccines in India. Credit: EPA/SANJAY BAID)

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