Launching the Covid vaccination drive in Puri on Saturday, district Collector Samarth Verma and SP Kanwal Vishal Singh received the injection first.
Other top officers, including the three ADMs Pradip Kumar Sahu, Binay Kumar Dash and Subash Nathsharma and Sub-Collector Bhabataran Sahu also took the vaccine as Covid warriors. As many as 766 officials joined the drive against a target of 200 persons in the first attempt in three different places in the city. In a phased manner, the vaccination against Covid would start in all blocks, said the Collector and urged the people to shun any disbelief of fear about the vaccination.