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
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
Ranging from rumours about vaccine side-effects to distrust of government efforts, we found widespread vaccine hesitancy in Haryana’s only Muslim-dominated district
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