new delhi the indian olympic association ioa president narinder batra received his first dose of covid19 vaccine on thursday in new delhithe commonwealth games association of india president batra and his family took covishield vaccine developed by the serum institute of india sii batra informed that he will take the second dose of the vaccine after four weeksmy family my wife chetna my brother hemant and his wife radhika and my brother in law jayant nanda and i took covid19 vaccination on january 28 2021 in batra hospital new delhi batra said in a statement on saturday we all took covisheild vaccine developed by sii in partnership with oxford university and british swedish pharma firm astrazeneca by gods grace all 5 of us are doing perfectly well and we will now take the 2nd dose after 4 weeks and as informed our body will develop antibodies in 6 weeks from january 28 he saidlast week batra said that vaccination of the olympicbound athletes is the topmost priority of the federation the ioa chief is confident that a proper plan will be charted very soon to put the thought into actionwe are having discussions with all concerned departments including health ministry sports ministry and nada we are very much on track and we hope very soon will come up with a proper plan for it batra told aniwhen asked about the timeline he said as of now discussions are on once everything is finetuned will let you know as of now i can only say that vaccination of our athletes is our topmost priority and we are working on it with seriousnessearlier union sports minister kiren rijiju had also said that olympicbound athletes will be given priority in the vaccinationthe postponed tokyo olympics is now scheduled to be held from july 23 to august 8 2021 while the paralympics will take place from august 24 to september 5 2021