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India must double its daily COVID-19 vaccinations to achieve its target of vaccinating 250mn people by July. But uptake in rural areas has been slow, unlike cities
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Not a single person over 60 years had been vaccinated for COVID-19 in Bibipur village, Nuh district, when we visited in late March. Nurses who conduct routine immunisations in Nuh struggled to conduct COVID-19 vaccinations as the authorities did not even have a list of those aged 60 years and above
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Ranging from rumours about vaccine side-effects to distrust of government efforts, we found widespread vaccine hesitancy in Haryana’s only Muslim-dominated district
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A combination of poor education, poverty & marginalisation of a community has led to COVID-19 denial in Muslim-dominated Nuh, which lags the rest of Haryana in vaccinations, say health activists
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Why does India's most backward district lag in vaccination, 2 months after the vaccinations began?