<span style="color: #222222;">Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a letter written to health worker Archana Pakale of Solapur district in Maharashtra has praised her for reaching out to the persons infected with HIV, people falling in high-risk category and sex workers for administering them COVID-19 preventive vaccine. Ms. Pakale has administered the preventive vaccines to as many as eight thousand six hundred and 75 people which also included transgenders.<br />''<br />''The District AIDS Prevention and Control Department and Civil Surgeon Office along with Shivaji Maharaj Hospital had organised a vaccination camp in Solapur. By immunising more than eight thousand people who largely fall under the high-risk category Ms. Palake successfully implemented the programme.<br />''<br />''The vaccination programme was implemented under the guidance from the Centre, Maharashtra Government, NACO and Maharashtra State Aids Control Organiation.</span><br />