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Overcoming vaccine hesitancy the key to a successful Covid-19 inoculation drive
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A week into its Covid-19 vaccination drive, India needs to overcome its vaccine hesitancy that is hobbling efforts.
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The bigger challenge to tackle hesitancy, though, might well be when the vaccine drive is opened to those beyond frontline workers.
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Please do come. There is no queue, it won’t take long,” Akash Kumar Jha says persuasively, as he speaks on the phone to a doctor at New Delhi’s Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital. It’s one of the many calls the hospital’s first officer for vaccination is making on Thursday morning to coax colleagues into coming in and rolling up their sleeves for a shot of Covaxin, one of the two vaccines India has approved to immunise the country against Covid-19. Jha has good reason to be as convincing as possible it had been five days since India launched its vaccine drive but the numbers at RML Hospital were not encourag
India s Vaccine Diplomacy Shows Off A Huge Strength: Foreign Media India s Vaccine Diplomacy Shows Off A Huge Strength: Foreign Media The government has made the calculation that it has enough vaccines to share. The result is a form of vaccine diplomacy that appears to be unlike any other in the world.
India launched its nationwide vaccination drive on January 16. (File)
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India only started vaccinating its own population against the coronavirus a few days ago, but it is already using its manufacturing heft to generate goodwill with its neighbors.
The government has made the calculation that it has enough vaccines to share. The result is a form of vaccine diplomacy that appears to be unlike any other in the world.