India on Monday began its second phase of vaccination against the coronavirus disease and Prime Minister Narendra Modi was one the of the beneficiary to get vaccinated in New Delhi’s AIIMS. Opposition leaders had questioned his decision to not get vaccinated in the first phase, to which Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad told ANI, “Modi ji had clearly said that our COVID warriors would be vaccinated first, and then us. He was waiting for his turn and we ministers have decided to avail paid vaccination facility.”

Last week, Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad had said that he hoped most minister will pay for their jabs.

Union minister Prakash Javadekar, who was also addressing a press conference on Cabinet decisions along with Prasad, announced that vaccination is going to be free at government clinics but people would need to pay for it at private hospitals.

People who want to get vaccinated need to register themselves and should carry some documents when they come to the vaccine centre.

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Health care and frontline workers, who are going to get their COVID-19 vaccine dose in the second phase of the drive, should carry their employment certificate to the COVID-19 vaccination centre.

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India has so far vaccinated 14,301,266 people since the vaccination drive began on January 16. The drug regulator, Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI), approved two vaccines, including an indigenous one developed by Bharat Biotech and AstraZeneca-Oxford University candidate Covishield, produced by Pune-based Serum Institute of India on January 3.