On January 16, 2021, India began vaccinating against Covid-19. Randeep Guleria, the director of AIIMS in New Delhi, received a dose that day, shown on live television. Two days later he said: “I have no side-effects. I am feeling perfectly alright.”
On March 1, 2021, Prime Minister Narendra Modi took his first dose of Covaxin at AIIMS. Guleria said: “It will go a long way in getting over vaccine hesitancy.”