{"id":27086,"date":"2021-01-18T01:33:56","date_gmt":"2021-01-17T16:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/jan\/17\/indian-hopeful-anxious-covid-vaccination-drive-begins"},"modified":"2021-01-18T01:33:56","modified_gmt":"2021-01-17T16:33:56","slug":"we-are-worried-indians-hopeful-but-anxious-as-vaccination-drive-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=27086","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;We are worried&#8217;: Indians hopeful but anxious as vaccination drive begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India launches bid to vaccinate 300m people amid fears over efficacy of domestically produced vaccine<\/p>\n<p>Emerging from Holy Family hospital in New Delhi, Ram Verma, a sanitation worker, breathed a deep sigh of relief. As one of the first in India to receive a coronavirus vaccine on Saturday \u2013 marking the start of the world\u2019s largest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/16\/india-begins-worlds-biggest-covid-vaccination-programme\">vaccination programmes<\/a> \u2013 he had been feeling a little jittery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI must admit I was nervous,\u201d said Verma, who had received his Covaxin jab in a centre set up in the hospital car park. \u201cA lot of us were. I thought I might faint or have side-effects. After all, it is something totally new. But I\u2019m fine. There is nothing to worry about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/jan\/17\/indian-hopeful-anxious-covid-vaccination-drive-begins\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India launches bid to vaccinate 300m people amid fears over efficacy of domestically produced vaccineEmerging from Holy Family hospital in New Delhi, Ram Verma, a sanitation worker, breathed a deep sigh of relief. As one of the first in India to receiv&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1828,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1066,59,346,62,914,512,433,79,61,565,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-global-development","category-health","category-india","category-infectious-diseases","category-medical-research","category-narendra-modi","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-vaccines-and-immunisation","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1828"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27087,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27086\/revisions\/27087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}