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BAREILLY: In several UP villages where the fear of vaccines is far greater than the Covid-19 itself, the health department teams are finding it tough to motivate locals to take the shots.
The health workers on the inoculation drive have heard scores of rumours, some of them strange -- like vaccines will sterilize men or people will die after two years of taking the jabs.
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BAREILLY: In several UP villages where the fear of vaccines is far greater than the Covid-19 itself, the health department teams are finding it tough to motivate locals to take the shots.
The health workers on the inoculation drive have heard scores of rumours, some of them strange -- like vaccines will sterilize men or people will die after two years of taking the jabs.
Instead of information on the benefits of the vaccines and the dangers of ducking it, gossip and fake news have flooded the social media space.
In Barabanki district, scores of people jumped into the Saryu river to evade the vaccine.
While in Etawah, an elderly woman was found hiding behind a storage drum inside her house when a health department team came to visit.
Earlier this week, in Mathura’s Nayi Basti, with a population of about 15,000, health officials could convince only 20 to get the jab.
Rumours of “vaccine death” have kept most villagers in Bareilly away from vaccination centres too.