Is India’s mammoth vaccine campaign fast enough to reach villages before COVID-19 does?
Rural Indians can be more isolated, mobile and vaccine-hesitant than those living in cities – but as doses are being manufactured at a breakneck pace, health officials are trying to make sure everybody gets one Neha Bhatt Published April 7, 2021
Health worker Reena Jani, foreground, speaks with a pregnant patient in Pendajam village in Koraput, India, this past January before travelling to a health centre to get vaccinated. Ms. Jani works as an accredited social health activist (ASHA), a lynchpin of India s rural health-care system.
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