Get a bag of tomatoes if you vaccinate in C'garh

April 20, 2021 10:50

Tomatoes are being offered to people in Bijapur Municipal limits, by the Municipality, to encourage them to get vaccinated for COVID-19. An official, Purshottam Sallur says, "It's being done to encourage them. We appealed to vegetable vendors, they supplied to municipality." This is being done in Chhattisgarh.

Vaccinations will be opened to all above 18 from May 1, the government on Tuesday announced after Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a series of meetings over India's response to record daily surges in Covid cases.

All adults can get Covid shots and states can buy doses directly from vaccine-makers in the "liberalised and accelerated Phase 3 strategy of COVID-19 vaccination", the government said.

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