COVID-19 vaccines on the country’s South Asian community.The study, which will receive $1.5 million from the Canadian government, will be procured by Ottawa’s COVID-19 Immunity Task Force and will probe vaccine confidence and hesitancy in a population that’s been tagged by the federal government as “disproportionally affected” by the coronavirus.Hamilton Health Sciences vascular physician and professor of medicine at McMaster University Sonia Anand says the survey will encompass 3,000 South Asians in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) and Greater Vancouver (GVA) and will study unique socio-cultural factors and its effects on that group in terms of susceptibility and response to infection and vaccination.