Doctors warn of fresh COVID-19 outbreak if people opt not to get vaccinated
The Hindu
Coordinated pan-India campaign can reduce impact of pandemic, they say
The growing COVID-19 in India is not enough, warn doctors, who say the cost of people opting not to get vaccinated has the potential to cause
“If people decide not to get vaccinated due to hesitancy and doubts, or even if the vaccination is delayed , the potential for new outbreaks of COVID-19 remains very high. New variants of SARS-CoV-2 are sprouting, which might be more transmissible and resistant to vaccines,” said Mubasheer Ali, senior, internal medicine, Apollo Telehealth.
Stating that vaccination in India was still a matter of choice, he noted that a coordinated pan-India campaign could reduce the impact of the pandemic.
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