MP Doctor, wife test positive for virus day after receiving Covid-19 vaccine
Dewas: A day after receiving the Covid-19 vaccine as a beneficiary under the pan-India inoculation drive launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a Dewas-based doctor tested positive for the virus along with his wife.
The doctor has been identified as a noted physician of the Dewas district of Madhya Pradesh. The medical practitioner and his wife were among the receivers who were chosen for administering the newly introduced vaccine shots against covid-19 on Saturday.
Medical dialogues team had earlier reported that paying tribute to health workers, doctors, nurses, and scientists who were at the forefront of the fight against the pandemic, the government had launched a vaccination drive on January 6, 2021. The world's largest vaccination campaign aimed to vaccinate 30 billion frontline workers in the first phase of the program.
Accordingly, the doctor and his wife's names were are also included as the beneficiaries of the vaccination program.
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