107-year-old, part of Constituent Assembly, gets Covid vaccine shot in Delhi

107-year-old Kewal Krishan, who was once part of the drafting committee of the Constituent Assembly of India, received the first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine at Delhi's Fortis Hospital on Monday.

Kewal Krishan, who was just five years old during the deadly Spanish Flu of 1918, and later became part of the drafting committee of the Constituent Assembly of India, received his first shot of anti-Covid-19 vaccine in Delhi on Monday, his son said. Krishan, now 107, stepped out of his home in south Delhi "for the first time since the coronavirus-induced lockdown was imposed late March in 2020" to get his Covieshield jab, son Anil Krishna said. "We had kept him literally in a bubble, and given the nature of the virus, we decided to keep him safe within the confines of home. And, today, we just took him in a car to the hospital, where he had undergone a major operation in 2019, got the vaccine shot, and came back," he said.