Many Ministers and prominent Indians received the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine over the first weekend of March. Union ministers Nirmala Sitharaman, Prakash Javdekar, Nitin Gadkari, Punjab CM Amarinder Singh, Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot among others received the first shot of the COVID-19 vaccine. Also among those who got the vaccine shot were Tibetan leader Dalai Lama, comedian Johnny Lever and ISRO chief K Sivan.