Couple steps out of home after a year to get UAE Covid vaccine

Couple steps out of home after a year to get UAE Covid vaccine

For the first time after nearly a year, seniors Shashikant Kalidas and Mradulla finally stepped out of their home in Abu Dhabi — to get their Covid jab.

“We were under ‘home arrest' because of the fear of getting infected, but it was the only way to save ourselves from trouble. Now, the vaccine is available, and I heard a lot about this particular vaccine, which the government has been giving. I came to know it is quite safe. And now we have experienced it first-hand,” said Kalidasa, a 69-year-old retired banker.

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His wife Mradulla, a 65-year-old homemaker who is paralysed from her neck down, was a bit hesitant to take the vaccine but now feels glad that she did. “I was reluctant but then my daughter Sapna and son-in-law Manish had taken the vaccines and they were fine. And I too felt it is better to have something in hand than nothing at all. And the government is recommending it. The experience at the centre was excellent.”

The elderly received their first dose of the vaccine at a centre run by