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The largest religious gathering anywhere on earth gets under way, with tens of millions of Hindu pilgrims congregating in India to bathe in sacred rivers for the Kumbh Mela. IMAGES
Kolkata/Bangalore (India), Jan 16 (EFE/EPA).- (Camera: Piyal Adhikary/Jagadeesh Nv) India on Saturday launched what has been dubbed as the world's largest vaccination campaign against Covid-19, with some 3,000 centers in the country looking to administer the first dose to more than 300,000 health workers on its first day.The campaign, which began in all states and territories of the country, was launched in the morning by Prime Minister Narendra Modi via video conference from New Delhi.FOOTAGE OF VACCINATION CENTRES IN KOLKATA AND BANGALORE.
A man in Bangalore is among the first in India to get vaccinated in the world's biggest coronavirus vaccine programmes. The Indian government has given approvals to two vaccines -- though one is yet to complete clinical trials -- aiming to inoculate around 300 million people by July. IMAGES
Bangalore/Mumbai/Dharamsala/New Delhi, Jan 15 (EFE/EPA).- India will begin on Saturday the world's largest inoculation drive to offer Covid-19 vaccine shots to 1.35 billion people in a campaign beset with logistic challenges, a fragile healthcare system, and skepticism over a homegrown immunogen.The pandemic tested the Indian authorities from the outset when on Mar.25 it imposed the largest confinement of people in history. (Camera: JAGADEESH NV/DIVYAKANT SOLANKI/SANJAY BAID/RAJAT GUPTA).SHOT LIST: PREPARATIONS AHEAD OF COVID-19 VACCINE ROLLOUT, IN BANGALORE, MUMBAI, DHARAMSALA, AND NEW DELHI, INDIA.
Samloti Village, Oct 13 (EFE/EPA).- Paddy is the main summer-sown crop in India, the world's second biggest producer of rice.Thousands of farmers in India have been holding demonstrations for weeks in protest against controversial new agriculture laws that allow big retailers to procure farm products directly from growers.The government has defended the reform measures approved by the parliament, saying these will pave the way for private investment to boost India's agriculture sector, which accounts for some 15 percent of the country's economy. (Camera: SANJAY BAID).SHOT LIST: INDIAN FARMERS CULTIVATING PADDY AT A FARM IN SAMLOTI VILLAGE NEAR NAGROTA BAGWAN, SOME 22 KM OF DHARAMSALA, INDIA.
New Delhi, Mar 31 (EFE).- A mosque in New Delhi has turned out to be the country's latest coronavirus hotspot after 24 people tested positive for the virus and hundreds of others were evacuated and quarantined from the complex, officials said Tuesday.The Delhi health ministry reported that an estimated 1,500 to 1,700 people had been present in the Markaz complex - the headquarters of the Tablighi Jamaat Islamic religious movement - in the capital's Nizamuddin neighborhood, and more than 1,000 of them had been evacuated. (Camera: RAJAT GUPTA).FOOTAGE SHOWS THE EVACUATION OF PEOPLE WHO ATTENED A RELIGIOUS GATHERING AT A MOSQUE IN NEW DELHI TO HOSPITALS AND QUARANTINE CENTERS.
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