//India’s vaccination campaign is unlike any other

India’s vaccination campaign is unlike any other

Covid-19 vaccine shots being administered to people in Mumbai, India, on February 3. | Satish Bate/Hindustan Times/Getty Images

One of the world’s largest countries plans to vaccinate hundreds of millions by summer.

In the fall, Devika Chopra, a gynecologist in Mumbai, got a notice from municipal authorities asking to fill out a form with personal information and the number of people who worked at her clinic.

As a health care worker, she and millions of her colleagues in India would be first in line for a Covid-19 vaccine. In January, she got an SMS message saying she had an appointment for her shot. She received her first dose of Covishield, the local name for the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine, at the end of last month. This weekend, she received an SMS and a call, and, on Monday, got her second dose.