NEW DELHI: The News Broadcasting Association (NBA), has welcomed the Uttar Pradesh government’s move to organise a Covid vaccination camp exclusively for media personnel in Noida on Monday. 

NBA president Rajat Sharma thanked UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath for the initiative.

The camp was held at Indra Gandhi Kala Kendra Noida where personnel from various media houses including India TV, ABP, TV Today, News 24 got their first dose of vaccine. The Covid vaccination camp witnessed the presence of MP Mahesh Sharma and state cabinet minister - medical and health, family welfare maternal and child welfare department, Jai Pratap Singh.

Earlier this month the Uttar Pradesh government had decided that media officials will be given priority during the vaccination drive against Covid2019. The state government has said that journalists should be allotted separate centres for inoculation, adding that necessary arrangements should also be made at their workplace to administer the vaccine for free of cost if required.

Notably, several states including Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Bihar, Tamil Nadu and others as Uttar Pradesh have declared journalists as ‘frontline workers’ and decided to give priority in the vaccination drive as the second wave of pandemic rages across the country.