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COVID-19 tales: ‘When no one wanted to play, I became opening batsman,’ says sanitation worker Manish Kumar
Updated On: 21 March, 2021 09:21 AM IST | Mumbai | Sucheta Chakraborty
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'

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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