Priyanka Chopra hails India's vaccine drive, expresses gratitude to frontline heroes

Global icon Priyanka Chopra, who is UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, hailed India's COVID-19 vaccination drive. She also expressed gratitude to nation's frontline warriors for ir relentless services during coronavirus pandemic. actress replied to post shared by UNICEF of first day of Indian vaccine drive.

Priyanka Chopra hails vaccine drive

Priyanka thanked warriors for serving nation. She captioned post and wrote, "Bravo India! Congratulations to Indian authorities, medical & health teams for starting off massive Covid vaccination drive. Forever grateful to our frontline heroes who have been risking ir lives this past year to save ors". 

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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on January 16 launched pan-India rollout of COVID-19 vaccination drive via video conferencing. He said that everyone had only one question in ir minds and that is "when will vaccine be available?" PM Modi said that vaccine is w available and world's largest vaccination rollout will begin in a few minutes. drug regulatory body of India has currently approved two vaccines. Pune-based Serum Institute of India (SII) has developed Covishield vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University while Covaxin has been developed by Hyderabad's Bharat Biotech in collaboration with Indian Medical Council of research (ICMR) and National Institute of Virology. According to Health Ministry, getting vaccinated for COVID-19 will be voluntary. 

Meanwhile, on work front, Priyanka was last seen in We Can Be Heroes, which garnered positive reviews from fans. She will be seen in upcoming movie,  White Tiger, alongside Rajkummar Rao. film will follow story of an ambitious driver, Adarsh Gourav, of a rich Indian couple- Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Rajkummar Rao. Apart from this, she recently wrapped up shooting schedule of her next film Text For You in UK.

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