Under investigation for having been vaccinated 11 times against Covid-19: it happens to Brahamandev Mandal, an 84-year-old from the Indian state of Bihar, who yesterday boasted to the media about his choice of enthusiastic pro-vax.
"Since February 13, 2021, the day of the first dose, my health has improved in every sense," he said, saying that he deceived doctors and nurses by showing up in a different place each time, with different identity documents to obtain the 11 injections.
"I haven't even caught a cold anymore," he added.
But the state authorities, instead of using him as a testimonial to convince the recalcitrant to the vaccine, have opened an investigation.
"We are checking whether these statements are true," said Amarendra Pratap Shahi, head of the district health department. "If we find out that Mandal has broken the law, we will try him."
Since the start of the vaccination campaign in January 2021, India has administered more than one billion 450 million doses.
The new infections recorded in the country were 159,632 and 327 deaths, data that fully confirm the run of the third wave of the pandemic in the subcontinent since the beginning of 2022: on 1 January the new cases in the country were 22,775;
the Omicron variant counts 3,623 positives.