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India Begins COVID-19 Inoculation Campaign

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   India began its COVID-19 vaccine campaign Saturday. Frontline workers
   are slated to receive the first inoculations.

   The campaign began after Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivered a
   nationally televised speech.

   "We are launching the world's biggest vaccination drive and it shows
   the world our capability," Modi said.

   COVID-19 deaths worldwide exceeded 2 million Friday, according to Johns
   Hopkins University, a year after the coronavirus was first detected in
   Wuhan, China.

   "Behind this terrible number are names and faces, the smile that will
   now only be a memory, the seat forever empty at the dinner table, the
   room that echoes with the silence of a loved one," U.N.
   Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told reporters Friday.

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