Vaccinate India, is a campaign by NDTV and Google to motivate and educate people on vaccination against COVID-19.

Arjun Kapoor, Actor lent his support to the #VaccinateIndia campaign and said, "Everybody has had some kind of side effect, which is a good thing. So I think it's important that people read up and get a little educated about the side effects. It's not a dangerous thing."

Joining the #VaccinateIndia telethon, Soumya Swaminathan, Chief Scientist, World Health Organisation said, “If we want to bring this infection down to extremely low levels then maybe we would want to vaccinate our children as well.”

Dr Randeep Guleria, Director, AIIMS also joined the telethon and urged people to get vaccinated, he said, “Both vaccines are safe and effective. Take whichever vaccine you are getting.”

Raghu Sharma, Minister of Health & Family Welfare, Rajasthan on #VaccinateIndia telethon spoke about vaccine hesitancy and said, “Vaccines are important. The vaccine doesn’t have any after-effects. I have taken it. CM has taken it and a lot of other people have taken it. There should be no hesitancy.”

Dr Naresh Trehan, Chairman, CII Healthcare Council, Chairman & Managing Director, Medanta - The Medicity at the #VaccinateIndia telethon highlighted the importance of Antibody cocktail in country’s COVID-19 fight. He said, “It is a very effective weapon.”

Anal Ghosh, Senior Program Manager, Google India explained how Google is making accurate information on COVID vaccine accessible and available on its platform in different languages.

Dr Jalil Parkar, Senior Pulmonary Consultant, Lilavati Hospital on the telethon talked about side-effects of the vaccine and said, “There are common side-effects, which any vaccine would have.The common side-effects with COVID-19 vaccine are body ache and temperature.”

Calling vaccines as ‘game changers’, Dr Faheem Younus, Chief of Infectious Diseases, University of Maryland on the #VaccinateIndia telethon explained how India can get rid of coronavirus. He said, “We either need to immune our people by vaccination or at least 70-80 per cent of our population should get infected with the virus.”

RS Sharma, CEO, National Health Authority & CoWin Chief on Vaccinate India telethon talked about India's vaccination programme, he said, "In April, we did 43-44 lakh vaccination. On Thursday, we did over 30 lakh vaccination. The number of vaccination will increase. So far we have vaccinated 20 crore people."

Joining the telethon, Dr Mathew Varghese, Head of Orthopaedics, St Stephens Hospital highlighted how can India win trust of people, when it comes to COVID-19 vaccines in the country.

At the telethon, Dr Suneela Garg, Director Professor & Head, Community Medicine – MAMC, Member, The Lancet Covid-19 Commission spoke about the new variants and how severe they are. She said, “The new variants have much more infectivity and are more severe in nature especially double mutants that is why we are seeing more mortality.”

T.S. Singh Deo, Minister of Health, Chhattisgarh joined #VaccinateIndia telethon and talked about how the state prepped up for vaccinating its people against COVID-19. He said, "We have given training to 7,000 people for giving the vaccine and today, we can administer 3-3.5 lakh vaccines in a day."