FACT CHECK: COVID-19, Cows and Politics: How a Vaccine Falsehood Spread in India.
As a second wave of infections starts to recede, India remains among the countries worst hit by the COVID-19 pandemic.
According to the World Health Organization, from January 3, 2020, to June 17, 2021, India registered nearly 30 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 and almost 380,000 deaths.
Only 239 million COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered in the country of nearly 1.4 billion people, which aims to have 516 million vaccine doses on hand by July and more than 2 billion by year-end.
That would include 750 million doses of the AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccine, which India authorized for emergency use. Called Covishield in India, the vaccine is being manufactured by the Serum Institute of India.
India’s government is also banking on 550 million doses of Covaxin, which is the country’s first indigenous COVID-19 vaccine and manufactured by Bharat Biotech.
But as India attempts to shore up its vaccine supply, it is also working to combat vaccine hesitancy. Some fear politics may hamper those efforts.
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