Two-thirds of new coronavirus cases in India come from rural people who reject vaccination

　　China News Service, June 6th. According to Singapore’s Lianhe Zaobao report on the 6th, although the new crown epidemic in urban areas in India has eased, the rural epidemic is still severe. At present, two-thirds of the newly confirmed new crown cases come from rural areas. Lack of knowledge of vaccines and rejection, unwilling to vaccinate in time.

Data map: On June 3, 2021, local time, in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India, Indian police inhaled herbal vapors as a measure to prevent new coronary pneumonia.

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　　About 30% of the urban population in India has been vaccinated with at least one dose of the new crown vaccine, while the proportion in rural areas is only 15%. Many villagers are not even willing to be tested for the new crown virus.

　　In a village in the northern Indian state of Haryana, dozens of people have died. Many families have fever, but the villagers still avoid the vaccine.

Kumar, 45, said: "I will not get the vaccine because it has a lot of side effects and will get sick after vaccination."

　　Kumari, a health official in the state, said: “Many people in the village do not want to be vaccinated. They are worried that they will die after vaccination.”

　　The authorities sent medical personnel to the countryside to get vaccinations, but many villagers slipped away through the back door.

In other areas, people jumped into the river or escaped into the woods in order to escape the mobile medical team.

　　In addition, the lack of rural medical facilities is another big problem.

Some people think that going to the hospital is more dangerous than not going to the hospital.

Villager Kurdip said: "The people who went to the hospital never came back."

　　Some experts pointed out that India must learn from the experience of promoting polio vaccination for children under five years old about 20 years ago, and use community leaders to carry out vaccination work.

　　In India, more than 120,000 new cases of new crown were confirmed on June 5, and the number of deaths increased by 3380. The cumulative number of confirmed cases was approaching 28.7 million, and the cumulative number of deaths exceeded 340,000.