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Dalai Lama receives first dose of Covid vaccine

March 06, 2021 19:20 IST

Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama was administered the first dose of anti-coronavirus vaccine at Zonal Hospital Dharamsala on Saturday morning.

 

IMAGE: Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama gets the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at Zonal Hospital in Dharamshala on Saturday. Photograph: Shailesh Bhatnagar/ANI Photo

The Dalai Lama's office thanked the the Government of India and the Himachal Pradesh dispensation for facilitating the first dose of the vaccine for the spiritual leader.

After getting inoculated, he asked people to come forward in large numbers and get themselves vaccinated for the greater benefit.

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