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COVID-19 tales: ‘When no one wanted to play, I became opening batsman,’ says sanitation worker Manish Kumar

Sanitation worker at AIIMS, Manish Kumar, makes it to our list of 20 faces who defied fear and disease to follow their heart or duty and emerge 'the first'

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Manish Kumar hadn’t taken the matter of being vaccinated first too seriously, but now believes it’s a decision that makes him proud. Pic/Nishad Alam

Manish Kumar hadn’t taken the matter of being vaccinated first too seriously, but now believes it’s a decision that makes him proud. Pic/Nishad Alam

First Person In India To Get Vaccinated

Manish Kumar, 35, Delhi  
Sanitation worker, AIIMS, New Delhi

On the morning of January 16, several members of the hospital staff were sitting in the waiting room, and there was a general sense of apprehension. But I had already gone to work for a whole year in the midst of the pandemic and by the time the question of taking the vaccine arose, my mind was made up.

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