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Covid-19 Vaccine
Image Credit: Barry O'Farrell AO Twitter

Australian High Commissioner to India in New Delhi Barry O'Farrell takes Covid-19 vaccine shot

| @indiablooms | Apr 06, 2021, at 08:25 pm

New Delhi/IBNS: Australian High Commissioner to India in New Delhi, Barry O'Farrell, took the Covid-19 vaccine shot here on Tuesday.

O'Farrell took a shot of AstraZeneca's Covishield, developed by the Serum Institute of India (SII) in India.

The High Commissioner tweeted, "#FirstDose today of @AstraZeneca’s #Covishield vaccine, manufactured by @SerumInstIndia. Pleased to be a part of the world’s largest #COVID19 vaccination program rolled out in India - 83,110,926 vaccinated since 16 January."

After marking over 1 lakh cases, India witnessed a slight dip in daily case count and  96,982 new Covid-19 cases were recorded in the past 24 hours, official figures said on Tuesday.

During the same period, 446 deaths were also recorded.

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