India s Covid vaccine drive off target as only half of people turn up to appointments
Health workers are reluctant to take a vaccine for which they say there is not adequate efficacy data
India aims to vaccinate 10 million health workers by the end of February
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Reluctance to take vaccines is jeopardising the world s biggest Covid jabs campaign with even health workers in India apparently wary of receiving shots.
Barely half of Indian doctors and nurses are showing up to vaccine appointments, prompting forecasts that the world s second most populous nation is dramatically behind vaccination targets.
Emergency use authorisation was granted to two vaccines being manufactured in the country, the AstraZeneca/Oxford University jab and Bharat Biotech’s state-funded Covaxin, on January 3. However, the Covaxin jab has yet to complete phase three trials.
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A health worker holds a vial of the Covishield vaccine candidate, after it arrived at a hospital in Ahmedabad, January 12, 2021. Photo: PTI.
New Delhi: After the Union health ministry released a statement by 49 doctors and scientists endorsing the safety of the Covishield and Covaxin vaccine candidates, 13 scientists issued an independent statement urging the government and Bharat Biotech to release data from phase 3 clinical trials of Covaxin, ahead of distributing it to frontline workers in the first phase of India’s vaccination drive, set to begin on January 16.
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