As Covid-19 cases fall, Indians drag feet to get their booster shots

Less than 30,000 booster doses daily in December, vaccine coverage flat for two months

Nearly 600,000 daily fresh cases of Covid-19 are being reported daily elsewhere in the world, but Indians do not seem to be interested in taking booster vaccine shots.

The reason for the complacency could be that the country is reporting an average of 153 cases daily. The state machinery has sprung back to action, with states and the centre holding high-level review meetings. India has inoculated 90 percent of the eligible population: a number that includes 20 million precaution doses, the name given for the third shot. As many as 2.2 billion Covid-19 vaccine doses have been administered in the