covid-19 vaccines, the centre on Thursday launched an Information Education and communication (IEC) campaign. Union health minister Harsh Vardhan calling the situation a “paradox" said that countries across the globe are asking us for access to the vaccines while a section of our own is fomenting misinformation and doubt for narrow political ends.Affirming that the prominent doctors along with many other healthcare workers within the government and the private sector have taken the covid-19 vaccine, and have returned to their work without any side effects, the health minister said that it is only a handful of vested political interests who are interested in spreading rumour and encouraging vaccine hesitancy among those vulnerable to such.