Cricket Association of Bengal announced a Covid-19 vaccination drive for its cricketers and support staff aged between 18-45 on May 30, the birth anniversary of its former chief Jagmohan Dalmiya. The association has tied up with Apollo Hospitals and AMRI Hospitals to provide the jabs.
Avishek Dalmiya, son of Jagmohan and the current chief of CAB was delighted about the fact that this noble, as well as a necessary task, was taken up on the anniversary of his father, who also headed the Board of Control for Cricket in India and was one of the noted administrators that the game has ever seen.
"It is a well-known fact that Dalmiya always had the welfare of the cricketers as his priority. Therefore, we thought it is a befitting way of giving him a tribute by commencing the vaccination drive for the Bengal players today, on his birthday," Avishek said in a statement to the press.
"Lot of Bengal players in different age group categories have started getting vaccinated today," he further informed.
Earlier the CAB had turned the Eden Gardens into a mass vaccination centre to help the Government of Bengal in vaccinating people.