Gandhian spirit invoked in UK

LONDON: The Gandhian spirit of protecting the society's most vulnerable is being invoked by health officials as the UK achieved its target of administering life-saving jabs to a majority of care home residents and staff as part of its COVID-19 phased vaccination programme on Monday.

"As Mahatma Gandhi said: 'the true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable', and the pandemic has brought that quotation to the fore," said Ian Turner, Executive Chair of the Registered Nursing Home Association - the countr y's national association representing the interests of care homes.