Nia Sharma questions 'woke' celebrities, asks 'kindly mention name of centres where vaccine is readily available'

With just a day left for the nationwide COVID-19 vaccination drive that the Central and state governments intend to carry out for all above 18 years of age, several celebrities have been urging the citizens on social media to register and get themselves vaccinated.

However, amid all the awareness that the celebrities have been trying to spread at the time when the country is reeling under the second wave of coronavirus, television actor Nia Sharma had a question for the 'woke' celebrities some of who had been holidaying in the Maldives until quite recently. 

"Every woke celebrity of this nation urging people to get vaccinated...Kindly mention the name of the centres that have it readily available at this moment so that people queuing up in thousands for days now don't look stupid. P.S we need to get vaccinated," she wrote on Twitter. 

Every woke celebrity of this nation urging people to get vaccinated...Kindly mention the name of the centres that have it readily available at this moment so that people queuing up in thousands for days now don’t look stupid.
P.S we need to get vaccinated.

— NIA SHARMA (@Theniasharma) April 29, 2021

Later, Nia shared the tweet on her Instagram Stories captioned, "Until then please slow down with your sanctimonious talk of 'go get vaccinated'."

Meanwhile, India reported the highest ever single-day spike with 3,86,452 fresh COVID-19 cases, taking the total tally to 1,87,62,976 on Friday, as per data by the Union Health Ministry. This is the ninth straight day that India reported more than 300,000 new COVID-19 cases in the country.

The health ministry data says 3,498 patients have succumbed to the viral disease in the last 24 hours, taking the death toll to 208,330. Active caseload surged by 85,414 and currently stands at 3,170,228 from the 3,084,814 reported previously. This accounts for 16.90% of the total confirmed cases in the country.

Meanwhile, as many as 297,540 patients were discharged in the last 24 hours and so far 15,384,418 people have recovered from the disease, the central health ministry's dashboard showed. With this, the country's recovery rate stands at 81.99%, the data also showed.