Vaccine hesitancy for coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 in Varanasi India

ABSTRACT: With the rollout of the world's largest vaccine drive for SARS-CoV-2 by the Government of India on January 16 2021, India had targeted to vaccinate its entire population by the end of 2021. Struggling with vaccine procurement and production earlier, India overcome these hurdles, but the Indian population still did not seem to be mobilizing swiftly toward vaccination centers. The severe second wave has slowed the vaccination pace and was also one of the major contributing factors to vaccine hesitancy. To understand the nature of vaccine hesitancy and its underlying factors, we conducted extensive online and offline surveys in Varanasi and adjoining regions using structured questions. Most respondents were students (0.633). However, respondents from other occupations, such as government offi

SUBMITTER: Srivastava U 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9581394 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature