Watch | President, PM Should Publicly Take Covaxin to Dispel Concerns, Overcome Hesitancy
Dr. Srinath Reddy, the president of the Public Health Foundation of India, tells Karan Thapar that he would take the vaccine himself.
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One of Indiaâs foremost public health experts and an eminent former head of cardiology at AIIMS has said that the President and the Prime Minister of the country should publicly take Covaxin to overcome vaccine hesitancy and, specifically, concerns about Bharat Biotechâs vaccine.
Asked pointedly whether he would advise the President and the Prime Minister to publicly take Covaxin, Dr. Srinath Reddy, the president of the Public Health Foundation of India, said: âYes, as a scientist and a public health expert (I would).â
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Designed as the backbone of the Covid vaccination drive, Co-Win’s performance has been spotty. Problems vary from registration hitches to missing names and duplication, though when it does function, as a BMC officer put it, things are fine.
The Software Freedom Law Centre, India, found the app does not have a specific privacy policy. Many believe a ‘hybrid’ approach allowing both online and offline work flows may work better.
(This story originally appeared in on Feb 24, 2021)On a single Sunday, India vaccinates roughly 17 crore children with polio drops. Even when the vaccine is an injection, coverage is in crores; in a drive against measles-mumps-rubella two years back, most big states vaccinated 1-2 crore kids in a month. But amid the Covid pandemic that’s claimed over 1.5 lakh lives, progress is slow it has taken 39 days to inoculate 1.19 crore across
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