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As of 24 January 2021, some  16 lakh healthcare workers in India have been vaccinated under the national COVID-19 vaccination drive. The vaccination campaign isn't yet open to the general population. However, more people are being invited to get vaccinated against SARS-CoV-2 by the day, and many questions still linger about vaccination, and the utility of the vaccines approved for emergency-use in India, in preventing COVID-19 disease in those who have been immunised. Bharat Biotech's Covaxin and Serum Institute of India's Covishield are the only two vaccines with approval for eme...

opting out of taking the vaccine, even though they are among a designated priority group invited to get them. In the past, concerns that led to vaccine hesitancy included the possibility of getting the very disease that the immunisation was meant to protect against. "Most vaccines are inactivated, or killed, vaccines...it isn’t possible to contract the disease from these vaccines," explained Dr Shahid Jameel, CEO of the Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance and Director of the Trivedi School of Biosciences at Ashoka University. "All the vaccines in development in India right now, except Cov...