India Coronavirus Dispatch: National turnout for shots lacklustre so far

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National turnout for vaccination lacklustre amid fears of vaccine safety

Even as India began an ambitious vaccination drive last week to inoculate over a billion people, the programme has been hampered by turnout as low as 22 per cent in some states, according to a report in The Guardian.

Amid fears of the safety of the vaccines, the national turnout has averaged about 64 per cent so far. States such as Tamil Nadu and Punjab saw disappointing turnouts as low as 22 per cent and 23 per cent in the first two days of the programme. Experts attributed the low