India Coronavirus Dispatch: Only half of health workers turning up for jabs

Schizophrenia a big factor for mortality, vaccination drive may strain public health system, and will Pakistan get Covid shots from India?-news relevant to India's fight against Covid-19

Only half of healthcare workers showing up for vaccine appointments

Vaccine hesitancy is potentially putting India's ambitious vaccination drive in jeopardy as even health workers are wary of receiving the jabs, according to a report The Telegraph. 

Due to widespread online misinformation and suspicion that the Indian government may have authorised Covaxin, a home-grown vaccine, without adequate efficacy data, barely half of India's health workers are showing up for vaccination appointments. As of Thursday, official data shows that only 54 per cent of health workers showed up for their appointments, the report said. Read more here

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