Film personalities hail COVID-19 vaccination drive, express gratitude to scientists, doctors

As Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday launched Indias COVID19 vaccination drive many from the Indian film industry took to social media to recognise the efforts of scientists doctors and healthcare workersThe Drugs Controller General of India DCGI had earlier this month approved Oxford COVID19 vaccine Covishield manufactured by the Serum Institute and indigenously developed Covaxin of Bharat Biotech for restricted emergency use in the country paving the way for a massive inoculation driveTaking to Twitter Bollywood celebrities applauded the scientists and doctors for their achievementLargestVaccineDrive Thanks to all the scientists and Doctors and Health care workers Thanks narendramodi veteran actorpolitician Paresh Rawal wrote on TwitterSharing similar views film producer Ronnie Screwvala described the vaccination drive as a big day Mixed feelings as we will discover more on this over this year but like in anything in life there are no guarantees Gratitude to all the healthcare workers amp scientists responsible for this silver lining LargestVaccineDrive MadeInIndirdquo he said12Big day with narendramodi launching Covid19 vaccination drive Mixed feelings as we will discover more on this over this year but like in anything in life there are no guarantees LargestVaccineDrive MadeInIndiamdash Ronnie Screwvala RonnieScrewvala January 16 2021Actor Kunal Kapoor also thanked scientists doctors the government health workers and the innovators who he said ldquoworked tirelessly and made it possible for us to carry out what is the worlds largest vaccination driverdquoActor Nimrat Kaur said she hopes the vaccine drive turns out to be smooth and successfulWishing the very best of luck to all the medics initiating the worldrsquos LargestVaccineDrive on this momentous day May this be a smooth successful beginning of a much awaited end God speed she tweetedWishing the very best of luck to all the medics initiating the worldrsquos LargestVaccineDrive on this momentous day May this be a smooth successful beginning of a much awaited end God speed mdash Nimrat Kaur NimratOfficial January 16 2021Filmmaker Ashok Pandit congratulated fellow citizens and applauded the efforts of frontline warriorsldquoWe applaud the efforts of our front like warriors doctors nurses health workers security forces police officials ordinary citizens who together fought this pandemic under the strong leadership of narendramodi jirdquo he saidNoted Bengali actor Parambrata Chatterjee said he hopes the vaccine achieves victoryMay the vaccine triumph and therersquos light at the end of this tunnel for every single Indian More power to mankind he addedExpressing his joy for the vaccination drive actor Ranvir Shorey wrote ldquoGo Corona Corona gordquoVeteran actor Anupam Kher simply wrote ldquoJai Hordquo as he shared a video of Manish Kumar a sanitation worker receiving COVID19 vaccine jab at AIIMS DelhiWhile actorproducer Tusshar Kapoor said Mubarak hothe worldrsquos largest immunisation drive beginsSharing video of AIIMS Director Dr Randeep Guleria receiving COVID19 vaccine shot at AIIMS Delhi actor Kangana Ranaut wrote on Twitter ldquoWonderful Canrsquot waitrdquoAccording to the government the shots will be offered first to an estimated one crore healthcare workers and around two crore frontline workers and then to persons above 50 years of age followed by persons younger than 50 years of age with associated comorbiditiesThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever