Billion-doses mark is lopsided with only 21% of population having had just one shot
People wait in a queue to receive a dose of COVISHIELD vaccine, manufactured by Serum Institute of India, outside a vaccination centre in Siliguri, in the eastern state of West Bengal, India, October 7 2021. Picture: REUTERS/RUPAK DE CHOWDHURI
Neighbouring China, the only nation to dish out more vaccine doses than India, has fully inoculated some 1.05-billion, or 75% of its citizens, up to late September. “Adherence was noted to be an issue in all two-dose clinical trials run in India,” said Bhramar Mukherjee, a professor at the University of Michigan’s School of Public Health. “So the widening gap is due to both the spacing between two doses and non-adherence.”
Government officials have been following up with people about their second shot, but it can be difficult to make them return as well as to convince those who are hesitant, said Wahl. “The further progress you make, the more challenging it is to get higher and higher levels of coverage.”
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