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India’s health workers baulk at taking homegrown COVID vaccine – Al Jazeera English

Only 11 percent of 10.5m use Bharat Biotech shot as government struggles to convince health and front-line workers.

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India is struggling to convince its healthcare and front-line workers to take a homegrown COVID-19 vaccine controversially approved without late-stage efficacy data, government data showed on Thursday, days ahead of a wider roll-out.
The country has the worlds second-highest number of COVID-19 infections after the United States, with cases recently surging as mask-wearing declines and states have eased social distancing measures.
A lack of confidence in a homegrown vaccine could prevent India from…

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