107-Year-Old Kewal Krishan Is India's Oldest Person To Take COVID Vaccine

Kewal Krishan was just 5 during the 1918 Spanish Flu. He then was a member of the drafting committee of the Constituent Assembly of India. Now he's got his first shot of COVID vaccine in Delhi according to his son as per a PTI report.

Krishan is 107 now and he went out of his south Delhi home 'for the first time since the coronavirus-induced lockdown was imposed late March in 2020' to get his Covieshield jab, as per his son Anil Krishna. He is the oldest in the country to get the vaccine.

PTI

'Kept him literally in a bubble'

"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.

"When the pandemic hit us all last year and we got to learn about the 1918 Spanish Flu too, I used to ask my dad about that time, but he was just a five-year-old boy then, and with age and infirmity, his memory has faded, along with reduced eyesight and hearing capacity," he added.

ANI

Kewal was born in Kartarpur on August 4, 1913. That was only a year before World War I started.

"In the 1930s, he moved to Delhi, and worked in the home and defence ministries, and was later part of the drafting committee of the Constituent Assembly of India. My father really worked hard and made his way up the ranks. After Independence, he went on to become a deputy secretary in Rajya Sabha," the son went on to say.