Photos: Tackling vaccine hesitancy in rural India

Published:Dec 5, 202306:13
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Photos: Tackling vaccine hesitancy in rural India

“I would rather die than take the vaccine,” a villager in Jamsoti, Uttar Pradesh, told AP. A common refrain among villagers was that the coronavirus spreads only in cities. This has alarmed health experts who say vaccine hesitancy, particularly in India's vast hinterlands, could put the country’s gains against Covid-19 at risk. Also, fuelled by misinformation and mistrust in almost every Indian state, more men are getting vaccinated than women — and that gap is widening further every day.

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