(ANSA) - NEW DELHI, 21 JUN - Free vaccination against Covid-19 for all adults started today in India.
The Delhi government hopes to strengthen the national immunization campaign, which in recent times, despite a devastating wave of contagion, which has brought the country to its knees, has been very slow due to lack of doses, confusion in skills and a profound reluctance of the population towards the vaccine. .
So far only 4 percent of Indians have completed their coronavirus immunization cycle.
After the lively controversy over procurement from private hospitals, and after the difficulties of various states in obtaining the necessary doses from producers, the central government finally announced a few weeks ago that it would guarantee 75 percent of supplies and distribute them to the states for administration. free.
With this new step, public health experts hope that the vaccination campaign will pick up speed from now on.
The health authorities' goal is to vaccinate all adults, or 1.1 billion people, by the end of the year.
But as early as January, Premier Modi had repeatedly announced that by mid-2021 the majority of Indians would be immunized: an objective so far missed, to the detriment of the health of millions of Indians.
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