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India’s COVID-19 vaccine campaign picks up in rural areas, but supply issues loom

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India has dramatically increased COVID-19 vaccination rates in its vast rural hinterland, where around 65% of the country’s nearly 1.4 billion people live.

But supply constraints remain for the world’s largest maker of vaccines and experts say it’s unlikely India will reach its target of vaccinating all adults by the end of the year.India opened shots for all adults in May.

But the campaign faltered in villages due to vaccine hesitancy and misinformation. That started changing in mid-July and of the nearly 120 million shots administered in the past three weeks, around 70% were in India’s villages — up from around half in the initial weeks of May.Although the increased vaccine acceptance in rural areas is promising, the pandemic is far from.

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